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TIL Spike Lee negotiated with a Brazilian drug lord to allow him to film Michael Jackson's 96 music video 'They Don’t Care About Us' in a Rio de Janeiro slum. The drug kingpin replied “With Michael Jackson here, this will be the safest place in the world.”

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Wk7GL TIL pollution from PCBs is causing weakened penis bones in polar bears, although no evidence that this is causing broken polar bear penises has been found as of this date
DQ4EP TIL Gatorade was invented by the University of Florida and is named after the Florida Gators
R74J9 TIL about a small lake in the Himalayas where hundreds human skeletons were found; while it was originally believed they all died simultaneously, a recent study shows these were several groups genetically different, dating back to 7th century, coming from as far as the Mediterranean
0rJy TIL that horses can lose over a gallon of blood when they get a nosebleed.
MadB TIL Harvard makes so much money from the interest on its endowment that even if the school gave free tuition to all of its students it would still make a profit