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TIL Tencent owns 9% of Spotify. With the two partnering on Tencent Music in China

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mpPv TIL that at the annual Vagina Beauty Pageant in Oregon, contestants are judged on three categoies: Stage Talent (20%), Attractiveness (20%), and Vagina Beauty (60%)
lraG TIL that illegible prescription handwriting is responsible for 7000 deaths annually in the US alone.
yVkOV TIL Billy Joel wrote "You're Only Human (Second Wind)" as a way to help young people struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts as he once attempted suicide himself. It includes a mistake from the recording where he fumbled his words that was left in as proof everyone is fallible.
1O14 TIL a whale known as “the world’s loneliest whale” is the only one known to produce “songs” at 52Hz. Although the sonic signature is that of a whale, the frequency is unique in no other whale uses it to answer back. His songs were first detected in 1992. A 50-day search for him will start this Fall.
R7NPa TIL that Adam Savage admitted he was mistaken, and that credit card companies had nothing to do with Myhtbusters not airing an episode on RFID chips