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TIL in 2009 a couple from UK started a facebook campaign to make Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name” the #1 Christmas single. The song sold 500,000 copies beating the 4 year run of X-factor winners. All proceeds went to homeless charities. More in comments.

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KxdB TIL In the mid 1990’s the bees in an apple-growing region of China called Maoxian County, disappeared. People then started pollinating apple trees by hand using brushes made of chopsticks and chicken feathers.As a result, apple production increased 30-40%.
78ZLb TIL that English Pouter Pigeons exist
yMxV TIL The inventor of auto-tune forgot to patent his idea in germany. Emagic created a similar program. Then Apple bought [Emagic], and integrated it into their Logic Pro software. his company’s reaction: “We can’t sue them, it would put us out of business. They’re too big to sue.”
yQgOJ TIL that Aboriginal Australians have the highest incarceration rate in the world.
KY0J4 TIL Olive Garden shareholders voted to replace the company's entire board of directors in 2014 after investors got into a disagreement over the promise of unlimited bread sticks.