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TIL that a Radio DJ played Wham's ‘Last Christmas’ 24 times in a row, after barricading himself in the studio

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5VKlk TIL Croagh Patrick, a mountain in Co. Mayo is one of Ireland’s most significant pilgrimage sites, where over 100,000 people climb the mountain annually, particularly on Reek Sunday, the last Sunday in July. The Archbishop of Tuam leads the climb each year.
jJ6j TIL that the people that created the Polio Vaccine did not patent it and instead donated it as a gift to humanity.
awgOJ TIL that Fatboy Slim sampled so many songs to create "The Rockafeller Skank" (also known as "Funk Soul Brother") that he had to give up 100% of the song's royalties to pay the original artists.
gnB4 TIL Annie Taylor was the first person to successfully descend Niagara Falls. She used a custom barrel stuffed with a mattress. She tested it by sending a cat over the falls. It survived and 2 days later she made the journey…on her 63rd birthday.
9DE6 TIL In 1944 the British submitted a full plan to kill Hitler during one of his routine, solitary walks. It was never carried out because he was such a poor strategist, they realised his replacement would do a better job of defending from the Allies.