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Mgem TIL a man spent 7 years drawing an incredibly intricate maze
5YA4k TIL that when Michael Jackson granted Weird Al Yankovic permission to do "Fat" (a parody of "Bad"), Jackson allowed him to use the same set built for his own "Badder" video from the Moonwalker film. Yankovic said that Jackson's support helped to gain approval from other artists he wanted to parody.
e0DNJ TIL Florida appears to have lots of interesting criminal stories because of the Government in the Sunshine Act, which forces everything the government does to be out in public. This includes arrest reports and criminal records.
YaXB TIL in the past 3500 years there has only been 230 years of peace in the civilized world
8eGOV TIL Patricia Highsmith (author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, Carol, Strangers on a Train) once attended a party with 100 pet snails in her handbag, calling them her "companions for the evening"