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TIL The videogame music genre has become a main income source for concert halls ever since traditional classical music performances declined in popularity over the years.

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5lOB TIL real-life vigilante crime fighters exist in Seattle under the name “Rain City Superhero Movement”
7NAM TIL That A Woman Successfully Sued The NYC Transit Authority For $9,900,000 After Laying On The Subway Tracks And Getting Hit By A Train
16rA4 TIL of Thomas Fuller, an enslaved African and mental calculator. When asked how many seconds a man has lived in 70 years 17 days & 12 hours, he replied 2,210,500,800. When told he was wrong, Fuller said "massa, you forget de leap year", which was correct once the seconds of the leap years were added
Y7j6A TIL that the photo prank of putting two fingers up behind someone's head originally began as an insult. Once called the "Cuckhold's Horns", it initially meant to suggest that their partner was unfaithful.
Vav8 TIL That Canada is actually considered to be the country with the most Freedom.