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TIL Psy makes $60,000 every time he performs Gangnam Style

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8e4lL TIL about "Flirty Fishing," a controversial evangelism practice where women in a cult used sex to convert and solicit donations.
W7Bm9 TIL researchers used AI to piece together ancient Babylonian tablets from cuneiform fragments.
WV7A TIL That (almost) all watches in advertisements are set to 10:10 because, among other things, the manufacturers logo is usually in the top-centre and so it’s nicely framed by the hands
aGP9 TIL of Harry Thaw who killed architect Stanford White and was acquitted based on the defense of “dementia Americana,” a phenomenon that caused American men to become temporarily insane and seek revenge against those who had tainted their wives’ virtue. Thaw had married White’s former mistress.
pYP8N TIL the Popigai impact structure is the largest created within the last 100 million years, and the shock pressures from the impact instantaneously transformed graphite in the ground into diamonds within a 13.6 km (8.5 mi) radius of the impact point