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TIL Michael Jackson tried to have Eminem's 'Just Lose It' video taken down due to a diss. Jackson bought the rights to all of Eminem's works and Sony just only reclaimed the rights in 2016

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b6v6N TIL Japan's Prime Minister in 1989, Sosuke Uno, was forced to resign after a geisha revealed his infidelity to the public.
0d6YL TIL that the Chicago Daily Tribune was so sure in Thomas E. Dewey winning the 1948 presidential election, they printed the next day edition with an incorrect headline "Dewey Defeats Truman".
69MM8 TIL Jeff Bridges refused to kiss Winona Ryder during the movie Fearless because she looked too young.
DQeje TIL that before Julia Child became a world renowned chef, she was a research assistant for Secret Intelligence in WWII. In the precursor to the CIA, she helped develop a shark repellant for life vests and mines that is still used today.
78Y9Z TIL of the iQue Player, a handheld Nintendo 64 system released only in China after video game consoles were banned there in 2003. Content servers were still up until 2018.