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TIL John Lennon openly plagiarized Chuck Berry's song "Can't Catch Me" to write "Come Together." When Paul McCartney called him out on the intellectual theft, Lennon responded, "Yeah, I know! It's good though, isn't it?" "Come Together" became a No. 1 hit and is considered a Beatles classic.
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TIL: In 2021, scientists experimented with CRISPR gene editing on hamsters. They removed vasopressin and Avprla, expecting that upon removal the hamsters would be "cuddly" and "adorable" all the time, but it had the opposite effect, causing them to be aggressive, territorial, and violent.
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TIL that — A Hell's Angels member threw a tire iron at Evel Knievel during a stunt show: he and a majority of the spectators fought back, sending three of the fifteen Hells Angels members to the hospital