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p85Ee TIL C418, Daniel Rosenfeld, Creator of the Minecraft soundtrack created a remixed version of the Stranger Things Theme song, which led to him writing and producing the theme song for the talk show Beyond Stranger Things
gMmmA TIL that President Grant in 1875 called for taxing Church property equally and wrote that its tax exempt status was "an evil that, if permitted to continue, will probably lead to great trouble in our land".
d8YXB TIL In 1985, Carrey made an audacious decision: He wrote himself a $10-million check for “acting services rendered,” dated it 10 years in the future, and kept it in his wallet. Call it a coincidence, but in November 1995, Carrey found out he would be paid 10 million for “Dumb and Dumber”.
W7wR9 TIL that certain U.S. cities such as Bloomington, Minnesota and Lexington, Kentucky have banned female ginkgo trees. This is because the female ginkgo trees have seeds that contain butyric acid, which is also found in rancid butter, and can smell like vomit or rotten eggs.
7rbYX TIL: Pheromone in baby mouse tears makes female mice less interested in sex.