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TIL that The Lonely Island’s song “Dick In A Box” won an Emmy award for “outstanding original music and lyrics”

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05yR TIL Robin Williams was agreed to be paid $75,000 for voicing the Genie in Aladin, which went on to gross over $200 million domestically. Disney later sent him a late Picasso painting (estimated at the time to be worth $1 million) as a way of thanking him for his work.
E1kVp TIL A baboon served alongside South African troops in World War One.
4XwJo TIL when American businesswoman and convicted felon Leona Helmsley died, her will left her Maltese dog, Trouble, a $12 million trust fund, whilst leaving two of her four grandchildren with nothing. This sum was subsequently reduced to $2 million as excessive to fulfill its purpose.
6E09Z TIL that registrations of Chihuahuas actually DECREASED after those “Yo Quiero Taco Bell” commercials in the 90s
YXLG TIL “Killing in the Name” by Rage Against the Machine was a#1 hit in the UK …. in December 2009