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TIL When Monty Python made their videos available for free on YouTube, their DVDs climbed to No. 2 on Amazon’s Movies & TV bestsellers list, with increased sales of 23,000 percent.

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N7Za6 TIL bone marrow transplants can cause "chimerism," which is the recipient's entire DNA changing into the DNA of the bone marrow donor.
ANbd TIL that the march ‘Here Comes the Bride’ is from an opera where the marriage is almost an immediate failure, and the piece is sung just before several wedding guests are murdered
jAdv TIL that companies in America will outsource call center duties to prisons. The prisoners make $0.92 per hour to handle calls.
Y7Xvx TIL that dozens of African elephants are killed each day for their tusks and meat. The illegal ivory trade threatens the survival of these creatures and leaves hundreds of calves orphaned and almost certain to die.
7nRx TIL Asia has a larger surface area than the moon