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TIL that Grimes was once featured in a Kpop music video

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R7J0j TIL that many movie studios have avoided paying taxes/royalties that rely on a movie’s net profits, by using creative methods to reduce or eliminate the reported profits, also called “Hollywood Accounting”.
BrpYK TIL that the “ah-choo” sound people make when sneezing is a cultural learned behavior. For example, in the Phillipines they instead say “ha-ching”, the Japanese say “hakashun”, and deaf people don’t add any sounds at all.
eneD TIL Amy Poehler (SNL, Parks and Rec) has been a judge at the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam!
dkdB TIL a man who was lost in the woods chopped down some power lines so that workers would have to come and rescue him.
789DZ TIL that 'Forever Autumn' from Jeff Wayne's 'Musical Version of The War of the Worlds' album was actually based on a LEGO jingle he wrote in 1969.