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TIL .tv domain is associated with Tuvalu, a tiny country in the South Pacific, and that the income they receive from it composes around 1/12 of the country's total income.

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4xYX TIL Boston has hidden poems on its sidewalks that are only visible when wet. When it rains, pedstrians are treated to the work of Langston Hughes and others.
R5KDl TIL the "salt of the earth" dialogue in Blazing Saddles was considered a throwaway scene due to Clavon Little breaking character by laughing after Gene Wilder's comment, and Wilder looking towards the director after Little's break.
R7mj8 TIL in 1928 a mail plane crashed into Georgia's Stone Mountain. The pilot not only survived the crash, but manually picked up the mail and descended the mountain himself.
rRypo TIL about how you may not actually own the digital content you purchase. Which is bringing to light the issue of digital content being willed to heirs of its deceased owners.
wLXYo TIL In 1895 an Irish man killed his wife because he thought she was a Changeling whom fairies had swapped with his real wife.