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TIL 25 years after its release, Mariah Carey still earns around $3,300,000 a year in royalties alone for her song "All I Want for Christmas Is You"

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nNdY TIL Eddie Van Halen has a registered patent with the most epic patent drawing ever made – scroll to 2nd page.
VMvBD Today i learned about the 3D visualization of the Bile duct and Gall bladder.
pYZDO TIL About a power plant turbine bearing at Holtwood Hydroelectric Power Plant that has been operating maintenance free for over 100 years and rated by the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) to continue operating for another 1300 years without maintenance.
p8l0Q TIL that Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet sold at auction for the then record price of $82 million in 1990. Since then it has not been seen in public. Its Japanese buyer threatened to have it burnt with his cremation but it is now believed to be owned by a collector in Switzerland.
4BPJ TIL the creators of Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Gravity Falls all started out working together on the The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.