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TIL David Bowie rejected Coldplay's collaboration request on one song in which they had, according to the band themselves, a "David Bowie-type character" by replying: "It's not a very good song, is it?"

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b6kj TIL that a man who gave away his fortune to charity also donated a kidney to a stranger, noting that the chances of dying as a result of the procedure were about 1 in 4,000 and “to withhold a kidney from someone who would otherwise die means valuing one’s own life at 4,000 times that of a stranger”
dD0X9 TIL There is a North American monsoon. Also known as the New Mexican monsoon, it is a pattern of pronounced increase in thunderstorms and rainfall over large areas of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, typically occurring between June and mid-September.
ewJk TIL That a 78 year old man has, since the 80’s, been building a doomsday shelter that can house 500 people, is heavily fortified, runs on internal generators, and has a decontamination room, a radio station, and a chapel. Also anyone is welcome free of charge.
Eg4xx TIL that although the British Double Cross operation captured or turned all German agents operating in Britain during WWII, the German Abwehr was equally successful in Holland with an operation called Englandspiel, capturing all British SOE agents sent to aid Dutch Resistance.
wZG8 TIL Stradivarius violins are so good because the harsh winters of the 17th century made for slower-growing trees, and very hard, dense wood for carving