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TIL that many inventions credited to Thomas Edison were in fact stolen from other inventors. Edison ruthlessly patented inventions from other inventors so he could claim them as his own work.

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o0mA TIL Peter Sellers tried to change his will just hours before he died to prevent his entire fortune passing to his estranged fourth wife
Egnew TIL that when Unsolved Mysteries aired a segment on missing child Nyleen Marshall, they were contacted by a man who thought he might have gone to school with Nyleen. This turned out not to be Nyleen, but a different missing child, Monica Bonilla, who had been abducted by her noncustodial parent.
M8pb TIL that in the 70 years that PET plastic, the plastic which most water bottles are made from has existed, bacteria has already evolved to be able to eat it.
rN1Ld TIL that legendary University of Tennessee football coach Robert Neyland helped design the stadium the team plays in. The stadium was renamed in his honor in 1962.
meYM TIL: Four years after it was released, an Arizona DJ played UB40’s “Red Red Wine” as part of a feature on songs that should have been hits. Listeners started requesting it and within weeks it was the national #1 single