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TIL Local government in Western Australia fined the United States $400 for littering pieces of Skylab Space station

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w90W TIL Lady Gaga’s Charity the Born This Way Foundation only Donated Just $5,000 of Its $2.1 Million in 2014
WkmY8 TIL Macauque monkeys at a temple in Bali have learned to steal electronics and other valuable items, in order to ransom them for food they perceive to be especially valuable.
ep6vL TIL many US companies in the late 1800s-1938 would pay their employees in company scrip, a currency issued by the employer and can only be used in company owned stores where they upcharged exorbitant amounts, keeping employees in debt, to ensure company "loyalty."
WkngA TIL nerve cell proteins can be genetically engineered & remotely controlled by radio waves and magnetic fields, by attaching them to an iron-storing protein called ferritin
9Yn7Q TIL as homage and in-joke, Quentin Tarantino named Mike Myers character from Inglourious Basterds "General Ed Feneche" to honor 1970s era Italian scream queen and sex symbol Edwige Fenech.