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TIL that the music artist Prince had enough unreleased music written in his vault that he could make an album every year for the next century.

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RXEw TIL that people who spend money to buy themselves more free time are happier.
yVYW8 TIL about fasciation, a rare genetic abnormality in plants where they appear to stretch like a glitch in the matrix
ANM5g TIL Tempura cooking did not begin in Japan, it originated in Portugal and was brought to the country by Catholic missionaries.
0PaL TIL Police SWAT sniper Mike Plumb managed to shoot a revolver out of a suicidal person’s hand.
8aGE8 TIL Tom Hanks refused to get paid for his roles in Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan, preferring to take percentages of the movies’ worldwide total gross instead. He got almost $60 million from Forrest Gump, and between $30 million and $40 million from Saving Private Ryan.