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TIL Daft Punk’s “Harder Better Faster” is a remix of Edwin Birdsong’s “Cola Bottle Baby”

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DQPEv TIL the "ALS Icebucket Challenge" actually raised enough money to create treatments for the disease (that work). It wasn't just a social media trend that went nowhere.
QN0Ek TIL during the first days of a baby deer (fawn)'s life, they lie still and are mostly alone apart from brief visits by their mother. Yet this early time in a deer's life is when they are the safest from predators.
m1ddR TIL in 1995, a man was convicted by a court in France for the murder of a teenage girl. However, he fleeing to Germany. In 2009, the father of the victim organized a team to abduct the killer from Germany and deliver him to a French courthouse, where he was finally sentenced to 15 years in prison.
woLZW TIL Doctors will imitate lifesaving procedures on a destined-for-death patient in the scenario the patient's family does not want to accept death. It's referred to as "Slow-code" and is typically a decision made under the table.
lo0LN TIL the longest game of monopoly was played at a frat in Pittsburgh,lasting five days in 1961. When the bank ran out of money they wired Parker Brothers, who sent them a million $ of monopoly money by air and was delivered by armoured car.