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TIL In 2006, Dustin Diamond asked listeners of Howard Stern's show to purchase a T-shirt reading "I paid $15.00 to save Screeech's house" (spelling "Screech" with an extra E for copyright reasons), hoping to sell 30,000 shirts in order to raise $250,000 and avoid foreclosure on his house

awmYJ TIL there's a language in Turkey that's whistled
705X TIL A typical Rihanna single hit costs around $75,000 to make, another million to promote it, and the lyrics are written in about 15 minutes.
5YNkr TIL that monkeys are used to pluck coconuts in Thailand
yQoxa TIL Sperm Whales can vibrate a human to death.
yVXQM TIL that in Star Wars, Han Solo's iconic BlasTech DL-44 Heavy Blaster was made from an early 20th century German Mauser C96.