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TIL The Wiggles we’re the highest earning band in Australia in 2013, beating out both Keith Urban and AC/DC.

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Wka1L TIL Liechtenstein was the last country in Europe to grant women the right to vote. The first national election in which women could vote occurred in 1986.
rbw0 TIL Rams’ Coty Sensabaugh Got Married and Had Guests Make Donations of Shoes Instead of Gifts. Then They Spent Their Honeymoon In the Dominican Republic Handing Out The Shoes
BrB6b TIL about the 'Children's Crusade', where a 12 year old managed to get a following of 30,000 children to attempt to reclaim Jerusalem from the Muslims. They were unable to cross the Mediterranean sea and were sold into slavery by merchants offering free passage on their boats.
XEd4r TIL when Luciano Pavarotti suddenly fell ill and was unable to sing Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" at the 1998 Grammys, Aretha Franklin filled in for him at “literally a moment’s notice" and sang an acclaimed rendition of the aria
N7XJQ TIL of the "Pompeii Masturbator:" a man who appears to have been forever immortalised in the midst of some personal time.