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TIL that Lemmy Kilmister co-wrote Ozzy Osbourne’s hit song “Mama I’m Coming Home,” stating that he made more royalties from that song than in 15 years in Motorhead

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R7dr4 TIL that in 2018, it cost 2.06 cents to make a penny. This means that the US Mint loses money from every penny they make (in 2018 they lost $90 million). Even more, this means that if you melted down a penny it would be worth more than its face value.
KeBQ TIL a study found that the costs of switching to clean energy from fossil fuels would be more than offset by the savings in reduced premature deaths from reduced air pollution
nW547 TIL that there were only 4 times a US vice president assumed temporary presidential powers as acting president, and each time was due to the president having a colonoscopy.
lojd5 TIL singer-songwriter James Blunt served as a captain in the British Army. During the Kosovo war he took along his guitar which was strapped to the outside of his tank and would perform for troops and locals. He also intended to refuse an order to attack Russians to prevent WW3.
woX1J TIL: An advertising company wanted to use Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire in a Hemorrhoid commercial