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TIL Sting receives approx $2000 per day from royalties for the song ‘Every Breath You Take’ and also 100% of the royalties from the P-Diddy remix 'I’ll Be Missing You’

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O7DR TIL the welcome sign to Kurt Cobain’s hometown reads “Welcome to Aberdeen. Come as You Are.”
M7GP0 TIL one night in 2020 Eminem was awakened by the noise of a man named Matthew Hughes breaking into his kitchen with a brick paver. He reportedly told Em "he was there to kill him." But Em got him to leave the house & into custody. He was sentenced to 524 days of time served & 5 years probation.
NW0J TIL there’s a macabre science around “beating heart” corpses. In many cases, doctors and health care providers aren’t sure who’s dead. There’s also the “Lazarus Effect” where a corpse will sit upright, raise its arms and cross them in front of their chest.
nlYB TIL that El Cid, a military leader in the middle ages, was so feared that, after his death, his embalmed body was placed on a horse and sent into battle causing the enemy to flee.
d8mJ8 TIL that Leslie Nielson, a legendary comedic actor, requested his grave's epitaph read "Let 'er rip" as a final and everlasting joke.