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TIL Mariah Carey makes $2.7-3.3M per year from All I Want For Christmas Is You

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aw9yL TIL that botulism in a dented can of canned black olives killed 18 people in Ohio heralding the emergence of food safety regulation.
lWWr TIL that NASA wanted to send Caroll Spinney, the actor who plays Big Bird to space via the ill-fated Challenger Space Shuttle in 1986 to interest children in space. However, the Big Bird suit was too big for the shuttle, so he was replaced by teacher Christa McAuliffe.
nW7p7 TIL The movie Crossfire (1947) was based on the book The Brick Foxhole (1945). The book focused on homophobia but the film was changed to focus on anti-semitism because the Hays Code prohibited homosexual content.
Rov1 TIL: Japan’s 2022 Fifa’s world cup bid included projecting 3D holograms of the games live onto fields across the world.
X0DXD TIL octopuses have 9 brains and 3 hearts