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TIL The Beatles (then the Quarrymen) paid 17s 6d (87.5p or £25.82 in 2023) for their first recording session in 1958.

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NXyDM TIL depression can cause blindness
yLlw TIL in 2002, Sega’s president, Isao Okawa, donated all of his company stock, worth $695.7 million dollars, to save the company from going bankrupt after they pulled the plug on its flagship game console, Dreamcast. He died of heart failure shortly after.
0wMOy TIL: Paper airplanes were not created to mimic real airplanes. They predate them.
dPZQ TIL there are only 2 surviving species of monotremes (mammals that lay eggs), the platypus and the echidna, both of which are only indigenous to small areas of Australia and New Guinea.
oml7 TIL France was not the first to recognize the US as a legitimate nation. Morocco was the first. Even today, Morocco and the US share the US’ longest unbroken treaty.