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TIL Italian soccer player Mario Balotelli supposedly paid for 24 homeless to stay in the Hilton for New Year’s

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neV7W TIL about Mason Bees. Solitary, docile and rarley sting, dont live in colonies, produce no wax or honey and pollinate the shit out of everything! Prefect for your garden!
80xX TIL the fall of Nokia has decimated Finland’s economy: “By 2000, Nokia accounted for a mindboggling 4% of Finnish GDP, 70% of Helsinki’s stock exchange market capital, 43% of corporate R&D, 21% of total exports and 14% of corporate tax revenues. It was and still is unprecedented.”
XjdR TIL James Earl Jones stuttered so bad as a child that he was functionally mute for 8 years until an English teacher in High School discovered he had a gift for poetry and helped him end his silence.
b9lLZ TIL of a band called Beatallica- a band that mashes up Beatles and Metallica songs
e01pJ TIL that before elevators the piano nobile or noble level (first storey in European terms; second floor in American terms) had the best rooms with large windows and balconies, avoiding the damp and smell of the street. Some newer buildings preserve the tradition.