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TIL the top 1% of bands and solo artists earn 77% of all revenue from recorded music.

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GYnmN TIL that in 1823, an Italian naturalist invented a process for petrifying fresh human cadavers. Accused of practicing Black magic, he burned all his notes. To this day, no one is sure how he did it.
KYG04 TIL a Guatemalan boy saw soldiers come into his village and murder his parents along with the rest of the village, was adopted and raised in an abusive household by one of the men who massacred the villagers, and later gave testimony that sent the killer to prison with a 6,000 year sentence
MpG7 TIL that 5-8% of the modern human genome came from ancient viruses.
vPV07 TIL the Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte was approved by Hitler to be the largest tank ever built, it would have weighed over 1000 tonnes and would have destroyed bridges due to it's weight alone
8xMZ TIL dry roasted peanuts usually contain more than double the salt content of salted peanuts