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TIL that no one is sure who wrote the original music to the song "Respect," most famously sung by Aretha Franklin. The original performer, Otis Redding, gets the sole songwriting credit, but he took the music and some of the lyrics from an artist who had copied it from another unknown guitarist.

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JYYmV TIL the most drunk man ever, recorded a blood test showing 7.22 parts per million of alcohol. An average person would vomit at around 1.2, lose consciousness at 3.0 and stop breathing at a level of about 4.0 parts per million.
78n0p TIL Samosas (fried, potato based triangular savoury South Asian snack) is banned in Somalia since 2011 due to Samosa's resemblance to the Christian trinity.
neWM7 TIL of Regulatory Capture, when a governmental regulatory agency ceases to promote the interest of the public, but instead does the exact opposite by advancing the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.
R7jOa TIL Jesse Owens gave 1 of his 4 Olympic gold medals to Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, he gavethe other 3 to a hotel owner in Philadelphia to pay for his outstanding bill at the hotel, and one of his medals sold for $615,000 in Dec 2019.
WkZ0o TIL that, in 2009, the National Academy of Sciences found only DNA analysis could rigorously and consistently match evidence to a single person/source with high confidence. Other methods, especially pattern matching (fingerprints, handwriting, bite marks, footprints, hair, fibers, etc.), could not.