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TIL David Bowie turned down knighthood

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dDew7 TIL about the Region-Beta Paradox, the phenomenon that people can sometimes recover more quickly from more distressing experiences than from less distressing ones.
yVjOp TIL that until it was demolished, 1% of Greenland’s population lived in a single apartment building, Blok P. The building was said to be "so depressing that it's almost an attraction [to tourists] in itself.”
4XxXo TIL that the French prime minister insisted that his cabinet watch the film La Haine (Hate)
x6KY7 TIL an Iron Man scene was taken from Robert Downey Jr.' s own life when the character he played, Tony Stark, screamed for a cheeseburger and then determined he would stop manufacturing WMD; Downey had years before determined to give up drugs after eating a "disgusting" Burger King hamburger.
4kbB5 TIL a group led by a real estate agent and a luxury car dealer managed to break into an airport and stole €38,000,000 worth of diamonds being loaded onto a plane, without firing a single shot and without plane passengers knowing what happened.