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TIL the most expensive mansion ever built in the US ($179,925,000), was demolished 16 years after completion when the owner’s widow sold the property to a developer.

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Y7eA7 TIL After the release of the 1996 film Scream, which involved an anonymous killer calling and murdering his victims, Caller ID usage increased by 300% in the United States.
9wk67 TIL that Joe Jackson would hold a belt as the Jackson 5 rehearsed, ready to strike his children if they stepped out of line. Michael Jackson was terrified of his father. “I have thrown up in his presence because when he comes in the room and this aura comes and my stomach starts hurting."
wBr7 TIL that 2% of the population have Aphantasia, a condition making one lack the ability to conjure up mental images through the minds eye.
Ypd4G TIL In 1967, Paul McCartney forgot his passport when travelling to France to shoot a music video. He told the agents, ‘You know who I am so why do you need to see a photograph of me in a passport?’ And was let through.
p0wA TIL a team of Material Scientists at the University of Texas Dallas have developed artificial muscle that is 100X stronger than organic muscle and is constructed out of ordinary fishing line.