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TIL Coldplay turned down multi-million dollar contracts from Gatorade, Diet Coke, and Gap, who wanted to use their songs. Their response: “We wouldn’t be able to live with ourselves if we sold the songs’ meanings like that.”

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dJyB TIL of Jose Mujica, former president of Uruguay and known as “the world’s ‘humblest’ president” due to his austere lifestyle and his donation of around 90 percent of his $12,000 monthly salary
7rZ7P TIL: It’s estimated 98% of the rain forest in Indonesia and Malaysia will be destroyed by 2022, with much of the blame on palm oil farming
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