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TIL The entire country of Liechtenstein can be rented for $70,000 a day.

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VMW68 TIL that in 1989 Flea from the band Red Hot Chili Peppers played bass on this track
APJd TIL In December 2009, a campaign launched on Facebook made Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing in the Name” the number-one single in the UK for Christmas, which had been dominated for four consecutive years from 2005 by winners from the popular TV show The X Factor.
1ylD TIL in Japan’s Shima Marineland aquarium, a goldfish was thrown into an exhibition tank to be live-bait for a larger fish. The goldfish escaped through a tiny gap that led to a filtration tank, where it lived alone in the dark for 7 years, feeding off food scraps that made its way into the tank.
QJgQ9 TIL that "twitchers" are committed bird-watchers who travel long distances to see new species. They have their own jargon, including "nemesis" for a bird that has eluded them despite multiple attempts to see it, and "plastic" for a bird that escaped from captivity rather than being genuinely wild.
Mer0m TIL that Paulo Coelho, internationally famous author of The Alchemist, "pirates" his own works -- by publishing torrents of his own books on file-sharing sites -- because he discovered that torrenting his books on Bittorrent actually boosted sales of his books quite significantly.