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TIL The Big Lebowski secured rights for the song Dead Flowers (closing credits) when rights owner and Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein, who was asking $150,000 heard the line “I hate the fuckin’ Eagles, man!” Klein stood up and said, ‘That’s it, you can have the song!’

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PYLgg TIL in 2012, Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry began donating 3 insecticide-treated mosquito nets for every 3-pointer he made to the UN Foundation's "Nothing But Nets" campaign to help fight against malaria.
mYNx TIL The Red Cross sells the blood that people donate
XEBv8 TIL that a book named 'Xing Fengsu' ( Sexual Customs) was banned in China in 1989 for insulting Islam.
VB6JG TIL Robert Hoagland vanished from Newtown, Connecticut, in 2013, with suspicions of foul play. in fact, he had actually resettled in Rock Hill, New York, under an assumed name, Richard King, which was not discovered until after his death in late 2022.
eppGE TIL hippos are actually not great swimmers. Instead, they mostly move with a sort of slow-motion gallop along the riverbed and they must be denser than water