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TIL Rick Astley has earned almost no money from Rickrolling, receiving only $12 in royalties.

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a816L TIL The record for most stolen bases in one season of professional baseball is held by a woman. Sophie Kurys playing for the Racine Belles, stole 201 bases during the 1946 season.
7rnEM TIL Queen Elizabeth II has had a lifelong love for Corgi dogs. She was gifted her 1st Corgi, “Susan,” in 1944 for her 18th b-day. Since ascending to the throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth had over 30 Corgis, all descendants of her 1st Corgi Susan. The last descendant died 74 years later, in 2018.
4adb TIL Until the 1960′s, the only reliable pregnancy test was to inject a woman’s urine into a female African clawed frog. If the woman was pregnant, the frog would ovulate within 12 hours.
PQNn TIL whites in Oklahoma slaughtered up to 300 blacks, buried them in mass graves, and burned down their town in the worst race riot in US history. This was done because of a made-up newspaper headline.
jNQVv TIL that lakes are formed by glaciers, volcanoes, rockslides, beavers, and people.