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TIL the Catholic church spends an estimated $150 billion/year in the US alone. All but $20 billion of that goes to hospitals and colleges.

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DQLNP TIL Bob Dylan has spent nearly nine days of his life singing one particular song. "Like A Rolling Stone" is 6 minutes long and he's played it live 2,075 times
d4Er TIL that pirates wore gold and silver earrings for superstitious reasons like not drowning or getting seasick, and curing bad eyesight. Also, the earrings’ worth covered the cost of a proper burial. They were also helpful to dangle pieces of wax from to use as ear plugs near cannons.
9BDG TIL that because Sublime frontman Bradley Nowell died of an overdose before the music video for “Santeria” was shot, the band used stock footage of him to appear in the video as a ghost/spirit.
rlOw TIL that, eight year’s before the Harry Potter books were published, Jane Yolen published a book called Wizard’s Hall about young boy named Henry who gets recruited to a wizard’s school with teacher’s pictures that move about and a wicked wizard who used to teach there …
6977J TIL than when a demo version of the Sega CD game Keio Flying Squadron was included in the December 1994 issue of Sega Pro CD magazine, the level select cheat code was mistakenly left in the game, allowing players to access the entire game from the demo disc.