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TIL that the band Savage Garden got their name from a quote in the book The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

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VMNbp TIL one of the main reasons Haiti is such a poor country. After fighting and winning their independence from France, they were given an ultimatum; They either had to pay France $21 Billion dollars in reparations, or come under attack by the heavily armed warships France had dispatched.
QJb4k TIL steppe eagle named Min was set out with SMS tracker attached by Russian researchers. Little did they know Min, a globetrotting eagle appeared in Iran and sent hundreds of texts with roaming rates that bankrupt scientific study.
wWw1 TIL That You Could Fit All the Planets in our Solar System Side-by-Side Between the Earth and the Moon
KlnE TIL - The 2nd place Runner up to “MasterChef” Season 3, had a schizophrenic attack and attacked a police officer claiming himself to be God. A few months later he shot himself.
oRPA7 TIL two Indian scientists discovered (and published in Nature) the Pion particles more than 5 years before the team led by British scientist C.F. Powell who was later awarded the Nobel prize for this discovery.