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TIL despite the popularity of Rick Rolling, Rick Astley has only earned 12 dollars in royalties from YouTube for his performance share.

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ZpZXG Today I learned that for about ten years, ending in 1957, British television schedules had a gap from 6pm-7pm called the 'Toddlers' Truce' where for an hour there was no programming so that parents could put the kiddies to bed.
m1lbp TIL in 1988 a tradie named Gordon O'Connor alongside his camel, Carla, defeated dysentery, kidney failure, the Australian outback and the SAS to win the world's longest animal endurance race
Br4Nb TIL about Super Baseball 2020, an early 90's baseball video game where some of the players are robots.
oANK TIL a father and son survived a Megatsunami (1700’ wave) by riding out the wave in their Alaskan fishing boat
47MJ TIL That if the United States makes it past June 2019 without a recession this would be the longest time in American history