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TIL Waylon Jennings asked for a $25k advance on his royalties in '72; RCA countered with $5k. When a mtg on it between him, his business mgr and the RCA bosses went silent, he walked out to take a piss. Upon returning he had a deal for the $25k advance and creative control over his next album.

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kOkQ1 TIL German chocolate cake is named after a person, Sam German, not the country
DrwY TIL: 70% of Americans polled either hate their job or are “disengaged” from their work, and even perks don’t work if they’re unhappy with management.
oReoL TIL that the song "Take Me Home, Country Roads" was written about a road in Maryland, by a songwriter from Massachusetts that was living in Washington, DC, and had never visited West Virginia.
VMdnZ TIL of Aditya and Poonam Singh, an Indian couple who have been buying acres of farmland around the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve & letting the forest grow back for the past 20 years.
jNmga TIL in 1990 a Peter Maxwell of California owned a manufacturing company, employed himself, had an accident on the job, hired 2 lawyers for the company and himself, sued himself, won 122k, wrote the 122k off, was then refuted and fined by the IRS, THEN later won his appeal in US Tax Court