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

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nWpO9 TIL that the Knights Hospitaller, One of the many Catholic military orders that fought in the Crusades, exists today and briefly had an air force.
k6Y4 TIL that in 2004, employees of a Walmart in Jonquière, Quebec successfully unionized their local Walmart. 5 months later, Walmart shut down the store, claiming they did not approve of the “business plan” the store made.
dDVRr TIL that Hound Dog was not originally written for Elvis Presley
4XdZa TIL when Spider-Man film producer Avi Arad, was asked if Spider-Man would join the Avengers, Arad said “I think it will take a moment in which we’ve run out of ideas.” the next year Sony and Marvel announced that Spider-Man would join the MCU
9wd9p TIL in 2016, 19-year-old Florida frat boy Austin Harrouff walked into a garage and killed two strangers, biting one of the victims' faces. He thought he was “half man, half dog” and being chased by a demon. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity.