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TIL Burger King reportedly paid $1 million to get its mascot in Floyd Mayweather’s entourage

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lob5N TIL Kenney Jones, the man who replaced Keith Moon in The Who, was with Moon during the last night of his life.
PY0Xe TIL During the Korean War, after failing to weaken the Chinese forces through attrition, the United States carried out the most concentrated bombing campaign in history which killed over 20% of North Korea's population and thoroughly wiped out "every city, down, village" in the country.
7rZxO TIL 75 percent of the world’s food is generated from only 12 plants and five animal species
rRKEe TIL that A typical four square mile patch of rainforest contains as many as 1500 species of flowering plants, 750 species of trees, 125 mammal species, 400 species of birds, 100 of reptiles, 60 of amphibians, and 150 different species of butterflies.
84AZ TIL in 2007, Joshua Bell played the violin at a subway station in Washington. Of 1,097 people, only 7 stopped to listen, and he made $32,17. Three days before, tickets to a concert where he played the same repertoire were $100.