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TIL "Last Kiss" is a 1961 cover. Pearl Jam donated the proceeds from their version to refugees of the Kosovo War, which helped earn about $10 million for Kosovo relief.

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8aXEX TIL that an Israeli couple were forced to pay over $2000 for an apartment they never rented because their use of smiley and champagne emojis in a text with the prospective landlord conveyed "great optimism", causing him to take the property off the market.
R7EO7 TIL doberman pups aren't born with a short tail or upright ears but have floppy ears and long tails. They are surgically modified a few days after birth.
699yY TIL that Florida has almost 8,500 miles of shoreline, which if made into a straight line would be more than 1/3 the circumference of Earth.
ADeMB TIL about Operation Mindf**k: a group of 1960s pranksters who wanted to show how ridiculous conspiracy theories were by placing stories in the media attributing all calamities and conspiracies in the world to an 18th century Bavarian society called the Illuminati.
epmNb TIL that from 2012-2013, large and precisely cut pieces of flesh were found in sewers by workers on 3 separate occasions. These pieces were DNA tested and found out to be chunks of flesh from an unknown human being. There is no culprit to date