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TIL that 16 years after Michael Jackson’s death, his estate earned $600 million in 2024 from a music catalog deal more than any living celebrity, even Taylor Swift

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5VXQQ TIL about black swan events, major events that were rationalised in hindsight as predictable but were outside of the imaginable for people at the time of their occurrence . Examples for these are the 9/11 attacks, the start of WWI and the dissolution of the USSR.
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