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TIL J.K. Rowling was the 1st & is still the only author to become a billionaire

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VMOLm TIL that the sound of the sand people in Star Wars, or Tusken Raiders was made by deepening and varying the speed of braying donkeys.
d8K7K TIL the rapper Logic played Mario Kart against different rappers every night on stage for one of his tours and won all 35 games
dDygd TIL that the infamous image of a man who lost his jaw, was falsely associated with Eben Byers (who had his jaw surgically removed after taking daily doses of radium for 3 years), in reality, this image is from a book about plastic surgery from 1943
e0OE6 TIL that Big Bird escaped death from the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion
Z8KvR TIL about the cookiecutter shark. The name refers to its feeding habit of gouging round plugs, as if cut with a cookie cutter, out of larger animals. Marks made by cookiecutter sharks have been found on a wide variety of marine life, as well as on submarines, undersea cables, and even human bodies!