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TIL Mike Campbell (of the Heartbreakers) wrote Don Henley's Hit "Boys of Summer"

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D1VPr TIL that you need to climb 2 hours on a 800 meters (0.5 miles) steel ladder to get to the clifftop village of Atule'er in Southern China. Recently 72 families were relocated to a town under the cliff, but 30 households intend to stay in their clifftop homes, partly due to a newfound tourist economy.
e0DLn TIL Bayer sold blood-clotting agents in the 80s infected with HIV to Asia and Latin America months after withdrawing them from Europe and the US for this very problem
ODB1 TIL when Futurama has Stephen Hawking as a character they do not simulate his voice but actually ask him to voice act
4Xyob TIL in 1970 Nike offered Spencer Haywood either $100,000 or 10 percent of the company in exchange for promoting the company’s shoes. He chose the 100k over the stock that would be worth $8.6 billion today
m8vR TIL New Zealand is free from Rabies.