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TIL Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane) allowed Chic-Fil-A to use her song 'Nothings Going to Stop Us Now' in a commercial just so she could take their money and donate it to 'Lambda Legal,' an organization that offers legal support to the LGBQT community and people living with AIDS.

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WknaX TIL Juvena Huang, a 20 something girl, rode from Singapore to Czech republic on her Vespa Scooter covering 44,000km, 25 countries in 27 months. She took this journey in memory of a friend who had inspired her to ride bikes and had later passed away. Truly an inspirational story.
699DX TIL Statue of Liberty sized industrial machines weighing over 8,000 tons are moved to their final location after being built. This requires roads, bridges, and docks built for this specific purpose.
e0LlE TIL: The White throated Rail, went extinct due to invasive predator introduction, then later re-evolved from a different related species.
woXkW TIL that Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, went on a joyride from Washington D.C. and back with Amelia Earhart.
R79nl TIL Masayoshi Son, the 2nd richest man in Japan, holds the distinction of losing the most money in history. He lost approximately $70 BILLION in the dot-com bust of 2000.