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TIL Millions of rickrolls has only earned Rick Astley $12

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GAmK1 TIL Quisling is a term used in English to mean a citizen or politician of an occupied country who collaborates with an enemy occupying force – or more generally as a synonym for traitor or collaborator. The word originates from surname of the Norwegian war-time leader Vidkun Quisling.
v1L4r TIL there are two families of Charmin toilet paper bears, one for ultra soft and one for ultra strong.
5egP TIL that the great-grandfather of Russian author Alexander Pushkin, was black. An African slave bought for Peter the Great, he became a major-general, military engineer, governor of Reval and a nobleman
v1AXB TIL: After the 2019 Notre Dame Cathedral fire, the video game Assassin’s Creed: Unity helped restoration efforts due to the highly detailed in-game model of the the Cathedral.
KObrJ TIL that in 1906, The Daily Mail hired novelist William Le Queux to write a story of the most likely path for a hypothetical German invasion of England. When that path went mostly through areas with low 'Daily Mail' readership, they ordered it rewritten to more directly impact their existing readers