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TIL that it cost $20 million to evict the last four tenants of a Manhattan apartment building to renovate it. The last tenant was so stubborn and savvy that he received $17 million of the money, plus use of a $2 million condo for life.

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P1JYG TIL "Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen" wasn't just a nonsense ditty but was the theme song of a national organization started by the Hearst newspaper chain, and had 578,000 members at it peak in 1937
WVb4 TIL Steve Irwin and Charles Darwin owned the same tortoise.
e07N4 TIL that 50 years ago a white woman (Petula Clark) touched a black man's (Harry Belafonte) arm on American TV and it caused a national commotion
A1Vd TIL that Michael Bay walked out of the screening of Friday the 13th (2009), a movie that he produced, because it had too much sex.
VBObG TIL: The Mouse Utopia Experiment was a series of tests designed what would happen to mice if all conditions for survival were met. As populations grew, social pressure became destructive to the colony. Even though all physical needs were met, the colonies collapsed in every experiment.