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TIL: Lily Allen turns down 200k in Bitcoins for a gig in 2009.

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Bexe TIL: Some deaf people with Tourette syndrome involuntarily swear in sign language.
wr77 TIL Fidel Castro had sex with 35,000 women, according to an ex-Castro official. At least two a day for more than four decades. ‘One for lunch and one for supper. Sometimes he even ordered one for breakfast.’
e04Ok TIL that Jamaica is the only country in the world whose flag does not contain the colors red, white or blue.
1aPVV TIL: The Beatles had an 'everyman' (Mal Evans, seen in Get Back) who did everything from roadie work to bodyguarding to even performing and just a few years after they broke up he was shot to death by the LAPD.
od98 TIL that Angkor used far greater amounts of stone than all the Egyptian pyramids combined, and occupied an area greater than Paris. Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, which used stone quarried from only 0.5 km (0.3 mi) away, the entire city of Angkor was built with stone quarried over 35km (22 mi) away