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TIL Rick Astley has made a total of $12 from Rickrolling on YouTube

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grw7W TIL about Lynne Redgrave, who is the only person to have been nominated for all of the 'Big Four' American entertainment awards (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, collectively known when all four have been won as "EGOT") – without winning any of them
M5Dm TIL Spielberg suggested Ron Howard (the director of Apollo 13) to use KC-135 - an airplane that could create 23 seconds of weightlessness for filming certain scenes. Those scenes were filmed in bursts of 25 seconds after flying 612 parabolas, adding up to a total of 3hrs 54mins of weightlessness.
5YM69 TIL that the most streamed Beatles song on music platforms is one performed by George Harrison (“Here Comes The Sun”)- not John Lennon or Paul McCartney - and that Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” is also the best-selling solo Beatles album
yvD8 TIL during the middle ages there was a legal category called “enbrotherment” that allowed two men to share living quarters, pool their resources, and effectively live as a married couple. The couple shared “one bread, one wine, one purse.”
8aPAK TIL tonic water has nearly the same amount of sugar as most soft drinks