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TIL The song "Don't You Forget About Me" was offered to several artists, who passed, including Billy Idol and Bryan Ferry. Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde loved it, but was pregnant at the time, so she convinced then husband Jim Kerr of Simple Minds, who had also passed on it, to reconsider.

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7RYL TIL the European Bison or ‘wisent’ exists and was considered extinct in the wild in 1927. Since then, this species has been reintroduced in many European countries. They are making an amazing comeback and now are no longer considered an endangered species
pYBae TIL Johannes Heesters was a Dutch born entertainer who performed for Nazis and lived to be 108
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nWEZY TIL how horses can sleep standing up
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