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TIL that in 2005, a wheelchair-bound woman won a treadmill on ‘The Price is Right"

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gBxA TIL the “Law & Order” sound is “technically a piece of music”, so composer Mike Post gets a royalty every time it is played. Post calls the sound “ching ching” because he’s “making money off of it.”
DbyP TIL that the game Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism, and originally had two sets of rules, the other encouraging the sharing of prosperity
R1Q1 TIL that having zero recollection of your drive to work or school (autopilot), has a name. It’s called Highway Hypnosis.
kOg85 TIL that the company formed by the Beatles to handle their wealth was mismanaged by them and exploited by their employees who purchased drugs and alcohol, lunched at expensive restaurants, and made regularly international calls, and lent money to people never to be seen again.
xV4dw TIL In 2016, Rolling Stone magazine named The Sopranos as the Greatest TV Show of All Time. The American crime saga created an immortal antihero in James Gandolfini's New Jersey Mob boss, Tony Soprano, presiding over a crew of gangsters who also double as damaged husbands and dads.