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TIL that when Michael Jackson granted Weird Al Yankovic permission to do "Fat" (a parody of "Bad"), Jackson allowed him to use the same set built for his own "Badder" video from the Moonwalker film. Yankovic said that Jackson's support helped to gain approval from other artists he wanted to parody.

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YA6A TIL The average American will have eaten 1,500 of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before their high school graduation.
Eo17 TIL Stone Age Europeans are thought to have created brief “gifs”, by drawing two versions of an image, one over the other, on cave walls. The flickering of a torch light would “animate” the image
v1Z77 TIL famed EC Comics artist John Severin refused to draw any horror stories for moral reasons. When publisher William Gaines suggested he was making excuses and just couldn't draw the style, Severin drew something so horrific that it gave Gaines nightmares.
e7mg TIL that the term “Just Joshing you” is in reference to Josh Tatum, a man who, in 1883 took newly minted nickels and plated them with fake gold to make them appear as a new $5.00 coin. He would then buy items that cost about a nickel, and receive $4.95 in change, gathering quite a fortune.
l7QvB TIL an analysis of reported carnivore attacks worldwide from 1950-2019 documented 5,440 attacks from 12 different species of big cats, canids, and bears. Of those attacks, about 1 in 3 were fatal. Big cats were the deadliest, with 65% proving fatal compared to 49% for canids and just 9% for bears.