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TIL Yo Yo Ma once left his 280 year old, $2.5 million cello in a New York City taxicab

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78bpx TIL that the most popular YouTube video is Baby Shark with 15.6B views, resulting in the video receiving an estimated $37M+ in ad revenue. Thus making Baby Shark more successful than films such as Disaster Movie (2008) and Superman IV (1987).
7rlZL TIL that although the candiru fish is infamous for entering human urethras, there is only one documented case of this ever happening, and the accuracy of this case is highly disputed.
WdY8 TIL that in 1999, a woman survived a 14,500 foot fall after her parachute didn’t deploy while skydiving. She landed on a mound of fire ants and was stung several hundred times, giving her an adrenaline rush to keep her heart beating.
ADL4 TIL Colonel Sanders was once a lawyer, and assaulted his client. He also killed a man in a shootout.
XYKD TIL when AOL 4.0 launched in 1998, they used ALL of the world’s CD production capacity for several weeks