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TIL Stephen Colbert donates his proceeds from the sale of AmeriCone Dream to charity

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OoO47 TIL Duke Nukem's original developer, Apogee Software, feared they would be sued due to the Captain Planet and the Planeteers animated series featuring a character with the same name. They renamed the 2.0 version of its game Duke Nukum because of this. It turned out the name was not registered.
5Ykvn TIL that in 2016, Mozart CDs outsold Beyonce, Drake, and Adele CDs.
KO5L9 TIL Decibels are logarithmic, not linear. 30 dB, is 100 times louder than 10 dB, and 40 dB is 1,000 times louder than 10 dB
W75go TIL about Nagoro, a creepy village in the valleys of Shikoku, Japan, where around 350 life-size dolls outnumber the human residents. Created by Tsukimi Ayano, who returned to her hometown 11 years ago, each doll represents a former villager who either moved away or died.
L7m TIL Michael Jackson composed music for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1994) but was left uncredited because of child sex abuse scandal