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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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7rkbr TIL that in 1913, Freud, Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin and Hitler were all living in the same neighborhood in Vienna, Austro at the same time.
AD5l4 TIL the Canadian Parliament once discussed how the country would deal with a zombie apocalypse; then Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird declared that "Canada will never become a safe haven for zombies, ever"
WkL0d TIL the growing German city of Wuppertal needed a railway, but had nowhere to put it. A regular monorail was deemed unsuitable, and an experimental "Floating Monorail" system was selected and constructed through the city and above the river, and remains in popular use today after over 115 years.
BgJe TIL that early Russian ruler Vladimir the Great met with representatives from various religions in order to choose a new faith for his people. When presented with Islam he turned it down, declaring that “Drinking is the joy of the Rus’, we can’t go without it.”
lonY1 TIL Of Michael Malloy, aka Iron Mike, a man who survived being intentionally alcohol poisoned, having cold water poured on him in the snow and being left alone, and being run over twice by a group trying to collect his life insurance