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TIL Hello Kitty is the 2nd highest grossing media franchise of all time at $80 Billion, behind Pokemon ($95 Billion), beating out other franchises such as Star Wars, Marvel, and Mickey Mouse.

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6EaJJ TIL that in Bali,12 days after the cremation ceremony called ngaben, the cremated ashes are filled inside a coconut shell and carried to a nearby ocean to return the remains back to the elements.
69V0Q TIL: The outflow from Amazon River could fill 83 Olympic sized swimming pools per second.
VMMoD TIL That Quentin Tarantino dropped out of high school at the age of 14 and got a job as an usher at a porn theater after lying about his age. .
vbl7 TIL that a Jewish-American was the prime financier of the rebels in the American Revolutionary War. He died penniless because no one ever repaid him.
168Pd TIL that after WWE wrestler Diamond Dallas Page went through a character change in late 2001, that being of a motivational over-the-top positive speaker, he would get his teeth whitened and got a facelift to fully commit to the new character.