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TIL 87% of households in Thailand own a motorbike

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0dwav TIL David Bowie rejected Coldplay's collaboration request on one song in which they had, according to the band themselves, a "David Bowie-type character" by replying: "It's not a very good song, is it?"
d8B9j TIL that in Babylonian mythology, Enli ,god of Storms and winds, flooded the world because humans were making too much noise and disturbing his sleep.
bW74 TIL Stanley Kubrick considered both Robert De Niro and Robin Williams for the lead role of Jack Torrance in The Shining. Kubrick didn’t think De Niro would suit the part as he deemed De Niro not psychotic enough. He deemed Williams too psychotic for the role.
r9Bw TIL that paleontologists have no idea how dinosaurs had sex
b6JPa TIL there are at least 40,000 native speakers of Ladin as of 2011, a written and spoken language in the Dolomite Mountains with similarities to Romansh (in Switzerland) and Friulian (in Italy). A standard form was developed for use in the whole Ladin-speaking region and is used on traffic signs