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TIL "All I Want for Christmas is You" by itself makes Mariah Carey $2.5 million each year.

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Y7eOG TIL that the film 'Jaws' caused neurosis in a viewer. After trouble sleeping and anxiety, she began screaming "Sharks! Sharks!" with convulsions. A study found that 'Jaws' is unusually effective among films in causing stress; whether its suspense, gore, or music is the cause is unclear.
negV7 TIL that after recording "Cool Cat" with Queen, David Bowie had requested that his vocals be removed from the track just days before it was released publicly because he was "disappointed with his performance".
P1gbL TIL female platypuses don't have nipples, instead, they concentrate milk around the stomach and feed their young by sweating it out
jNbON TIL that a “Kermit” is a unit of time equal to 1/100th of a day (approximately 14.4 minutes)
oBrRE TIL about Jaron Lanier, who at 13 convinced a university to allow him to enroll (where he took graduate-level courses) and at 16 built a canoe he sailed from Florida to Venezuela. He is considered a founding father of the field of virtual reality.