Hard work pays off. For the dance crew members of billionaire pop star Taylor Swift, their efforts helped make her 2023 to 2024 Eras Tour the top-grossing worldwide concert in music history.

Swift recognized her workers’ sacrifices and surprised each of them at the last leg of the phenomenal tour with a handwritten note.

In a scene from her new docuseries The End of an Era, one of the dancers read the 36-year-old pop star’s message:

“Dearest Cam, we’ve travelled the world like we set out to do. We’ve dazzled the crowds, but we’ve missed family too. My full gratitude doesn’t come from a bank, but here’s a [redacted] dollars just to say thanks. Love Taylor,” the New York Post (NYP) quoted the dancer as saying, with the amount she gave censored.

The “Shake It Off” singer gave out $197 million in bonuses to everyone working on her Eras Tour, including truck drivers, caterers, dancers and musicians, according to NYP.

Meanwhile, childhood friends Satish Khatik and Sajid Mohammed of Panna in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state leased, on 19 November, a plot of diamond mining land where they hoped to strike it rich.

Khatik, 24, who runs a meat shop, and Mohammed, 23, who sells fruits, would sift through mounds of dirt after work in the evenings or whenever they got time off from their day jobs, the BBC reported.

Weeks later, they stumbled on a glistening rock and took it to the city’s official diamond evaluator. The appraiser told Khatik and Mohammed that it was a 15.34-carat gem — one of the finest varieties of natural diamonds that exist — with a market value of around five to six million rupees ($55,000 to $66,000), according to BBC Hindi.

The diamond will be auctioned off and, once they collect the money, Khatik and Mohammed said they will first spend it on the wedding of their sisters.