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

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EvgV TIL The inventor of the pop-up ad later admitted he was sorry for creating it, and believes its creation started a path that lead to the mass surveillance of the internet.
GYdgE TIL Boxing trainer Cus D'Amato was criticised for being a proponent for the peek-a-boo style of boxing; it was believed that an efficient attack could not be launched from it. He coached Mike Tyson later in his career in this exact style, who would become the youngest world heavyweight titleholder.
8eg4K Til Kanno Sugako, an Anarcho Feminist, is the first woman with the status of political prisoner to be executed in the history of modern Japan.
Egrrd TIL spiders can taste
VMvb8 TIL about the Bouba-Kiki effect, which is a universal, inherent and nonarbitrary bias found in most adults to ascribe visual shapes to speech sounds.