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

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1aaoD TIL Michael Bolton is a huge softball fan, and produced an instructional softball video in the 90s
694PJ TIL in the Netherlands there is a small community of four people living in the middle of the Afsluitdijk, the large causeway/dam that separates the North Sea from Lake Ijssel.
DQxmV TIL in ancient times, doctors used spider webs to make bandages for their patients. As it is said that spider webs have natural antiseptic and anti-fungal properties, which can help keep wounds clean and prevent infection.
egvk TIL: In 2002, Chechen separatists brought down a Russian Mi-26 helicopter, which subsequently crashed into a minefield killing 127 soldiers on board. It was the most deadly aviation disaster ever suffered by the Russian armed forces, as well as their worst loss of life in a single day since 1999.
rR56e TIL that David Zucker (writer of the film Airplane!) named his racehorse All Pink to mess with the commentators. Zucker specifically instructed the jockey riding All Pink to hug the inside of the track so the commentator would have to keep saying the phrase “It’s all pink on the inside!”.