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TIL Apple paid U2 $100m for the exclusive right to give its 500m iTunes customers U2's album "Songs of Innocence" for free by installing it on their devices without asking. A week after release, Apple gave customers a method to remove it, as just 6.7% of the 500m had listened to at least part of it.

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VM7gm TIL about Bombay Beach in California. In the 1950s and '60s it was a thriving resort. Guests swam, water-skied, and golfed during the day, then headed to the yacht club to party into the night. Now, Bombay Beach is a bleached, rusted, abandoned wasteland. It's an apocalyptic landscape.
YWbr TIL: 10% of Europeans are immune to the HIV virus.
rjrW TIL that over 100 million Sharks per year are killed to fuel the shark fin industry. This has caused the populations to drop 60-90% over the last 15 years.
X8EQ TIL the British royal family refused to flee London during the Blitz, instead choosing to endure the horrific bombings and support the common people during a time of crisis. The Buckingham Palace suffered 9 direct hits, and the royal family earned adoration and respect from across the country.
Xv8 TIL that since the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Israeli Air Force has lost only 18 planes in dogfights while downing 817 Arab planes in air to air combat