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TIL "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve sampled the "Last Time" by The Rolling Stones and The Verve had to pay them 100% of the royalties.

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LkK90 TIL about a Swiss satellite designed to clean up some of the space debris that orbits the Earth as a result of sending objects in space. A "janitor satellite".
WkxbN TIL Vatican City's main imports include Petroleum; Medication; Human Blood; Hard Liquor; Rolled Tobacco; Vacuum Cleaners and Butter.
jJGj TIL there is a ‘ghost town’ in New York City - “The Hole”, an area of Queens built too close to the water table, is mostly abandoned, usually flooded, and was once a body-dumping ground for the mafia.
yQDPp TIL A Twist Ending to the TV Show St Elsewhere Has Fueled a Fan Theory That It and Every Show it Crossed Over With Took Place Inside The Mind Of An Autistic Teenage Boy; Well Over 200 Shows And Even Movies Are Implicated
QBAa TIL Two Brown Bears were Caught Performing Oral Sex in Croatia