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TIL after 22 years in May 2019 Rolling Stones have returned Bitter Sweet Symphony royalties and rights to Richard Ashcroft (lead singer of the band The Verve)

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DQwlD TIL that theres an extreme sport in India called the wall/well of death. In this sport, they will drive their cars and bikes along the sides/walls of a large concrete cylindrical structure. In a circle while also taking tips from the crows at the top of the cylinder.
wLJxW TIL that Bolivia makes a soft drink called 'Coca Colla' which is made with real coca leaf. It is a local competitor of Coca-Cola and Red Bull, but is currently illegal to export under both Bolivian and U.N. drug laws
9baG TIL that the word “Peruse” actually means the opposite of how it’s casually used. It means “to read or examine thoroughly.”
kOwr7 TIL J.J. Thomson won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for showing that the electron is a particle. His son, George Paget Thomson, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for showing that the electron is a wave.
e07Mn TIL that tons of wreckage from the USS Arizona, removed during Memorial construction in 1962, were dumped on the ground in Waipio Peninsula near Pearl Harbor, and remain there today.