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TIL there are literal mountains of 'trashed', rentable bikes in china - with a lot of them looking like new

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VBGKp TIL A notorious grouch who detested the growing influence of the greeks in roman culture and society, Cato the Elder also believed all greek doctors to be part of a grand conspiracy to eradicate all romans through defective medicine and deliberate malpractice
EgdZV TIL Humans are the only animals that can cry from emotion, other animals that cry can only do so to lubricate their eyes.
RpPQ TIL Due to his good relationship with the CIA, Elvis tried to get The Beatles banished from America because they were “bad for the American youth”!
0wrgR TIL of a man named Garry Hoy who died trying to prove to a bunch of students that the glass wall on the 24tn storey of the building he worked in was unbreakable. He threw himself at the glass wall which didn't break but the window frame gave way and he fell to his death.
n7xP TIL Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech is owned by CBS and it is illegal to distribute it