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TiL that the Beatles self-titled album (aka the White Album) was originally supposed to be called "A Doll's House" until English progressive rock band Family released the similarly titled "Music in a Doll's House" earlier that year.

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weLP TIL George Lucas once said, “People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.”
kO45e TIL Ben Affleck is banned for life from playing Blackjack at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas after being caught counting cards.
e06M5 TIL that William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy, the first Norman king of England, and ancestor to every English/British monarch since, was born a bastard.
xV4Lb TIL that the person Crocodile Dundee was based on, died in a shootout with police in 1999.
pp7Q TIL that the lionfish that are killing reefs across the Atlantic, killing countless fish and other wildlife, were traced back (via DNA) to 6 to 8 females, most likely released by owners that did not want (ironically) to kill their fish and so released them instead.