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TIL that Don King was charging Tyson 8k a week for towels

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x6vV0 TIL about Vortex I, the only state sponsored rock festival in US history. It was done in Oregon coinciding with a visit from President Nixon to support the Vietnam war as a distraction for anti-war protestors.
xVlpB TIL Opossums are actually really helpful to humans.
grlBb TIL the role of Bond villain Max Zorin in 1985's A View to a Kill was offered to both Sting and David Bowie (who initially accepted but later backed out) before Christopher Walken signed on.
nWxVd TIL during the siege of Suiyan in the An Lushan Rebellion of Tang China, due to food shortage and prolonged famine, in the beginning, the horses were eaten. When there were no more horses, they turned to the women, the old, and the weak. 30,000 people in total were eaten. Only 400 people were left.
yQMDe TIL that the first bomb that fell on Berlin from the Allies in WWII didn’t kill anyone except the one and only elephant of the Berlin zoo.