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TIL that Fox and Lucasfilm only permitted Mel Brooks to make Spaceballs after he agreed to not produce action figures or other merchandising

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yVARe TIL Idina Menzel earned $30,000 a week during her performance as Elphaba in the West End production of Wicked.
KOA4E TIL Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
XENWk TIL of "Limerence" - a state of mind from romantic or non-romantic feelings for a person that includes obsessive thoughts and fantasies and a desire to maintain a relationship with the person and have one's feelings reciprocated. It is also defined as an involuntary state of intense desire.
JY4Ml TIL of a study which suggests melatonin, the hormone associated with control of our sleep-wake cycles, evolved 700 million years ago from our tiny oceangoing ancestors that would swim to the surface of the sea at twilight and then sink into the depths of the ocean in a sleepy fall through the night.
l8na TIL the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on the Google homepage costs the company $110 million a year, as 1% of all searches use this feature and bypass all advertising.