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TIL: Much (but not all) of Weird Al Yankovic's music is satire, rather than parody. Thus it is not protected by the Fair Use Doctrine.

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wokQJ TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart who survived being shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear, lost his left eye, survived two plane crashes, tunnelled out of a prisoner-of-war camp, and tore off his own fingers when a doctor declined to amputate them.
69YPX TIL that the sun is extremely loud
8klP TIL that the Oakland Police Department spent $15,000 to modify the tailpipes of their Harley motorcycles to make them LOUD.
Z4R TIL that if California was a country, it would be the 8th wealthiest in the world
woAL1 TIL that pineapples grow from the "bottom" up, with the green part on the top.