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TIL Infectious Grooves' song Do What I Tell Ya! criticized Rage Against The Machine's relationship with multinational conglomerate corporation, Sony.

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LkBbp TIL that a group of researchers determined that infinite monkeys probably couldn't write Shakespeare: 'The six monkeys - Elmo, Gum, Heather, Holly, Mistletoe and Rowan - produced five pages of text which consisted mainly of the letter 's'."
b9pXN TIL that 2010 and 2015, Russia accounted for more than 80% of the new HIV infections in the entire Eastern European and the Central Asian region.
E1ydw TIL of The Rolex Murder. On July 28, 1996, a man’s body washed up on a trawler in the UK seas. There was no identification on the body except a 25-year-old Rolex Oyster on his wrist. As Rolex maintains such meticulous service records, they were able to ID the victim and ultimately the murderer.
xVgk5 TIL of the Bombing of the Bezuidenhout, an incident in which the British RAF accidentally bombarded a civilian neighbourhood in The Hague resulting in 511 casualties.
brEZ TIL: This guy (Jason Lewis) became the 1st person to circumnavigate the Earth without using motors or sails. He walked, cycled, & inline skated 5 continents, & kayaked, swam, rowed, & pedalled a boat across the rivers, seas, and oceans. It took him 13 years to complete, the 46,505-mile journey.