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TIL that the writer of the Mexican National Anthem, a love poet, didn't think he'd be able to write such a thing for an on-going national anthem competition. His fiancée frustrated, then lured and locked him into her parent's bedroom, until he slid out a piece of paper after four hours.

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XEpBE TIL that Matt Leblanc, before he was cast in Friends, was told by a photographer to go to a dentist and file a tooth as it was longer. Matt couldn't afford $80 for the dentist as he only had $11 left to his name, so he bought 3 packs of emery boards (Nail files) and filed the tooth himself.
D1VPr TIL that you need to climb 2 hours on a 800 meters (0.5 miles) steel ladder to get to the clifftop village of Atule'er in Southern China. Recently 72 families were relocated to a town under the cliff, but 30 households intend to stay in their clifftop homes, partly due to a newfound tourist economy.
kOAW5 TIL - 30 yeas ago today (May 20, 89) a Soviet pilot baked a cake with sleeping pills and fed it to his squadron. While they were asleep he cut the alarm, wrestled with the guard on duty, took control of a Mig-29 and flew it to Turkey. He died in a Soviet Yak52 near Seattle during test flight in 2001
YpO1W TIL there was a handheld video game called Bin Laden vs. USA. You could either play as the US and try to shoot down the planes or as Al Qaeda and fly your planes into the World Trade Center.
0dQ5L TIL because he thought he would be assassinated for testifying against his former gang, a former gang member was smuggled into the courthouse in a hollowed out vending machine.