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TIL John Fogerty was sued for plagiarizing himself.

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JYLY1 TIL the shocking origin behind the ‘light a bag of poop on fire on someone’s porch’ joke! (VIDEO)
69eV7 TIL Harold Russell is the only actor to win two Academy Awards for the same role. Russel lost his hands during the Second World War and played Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), he was awarded Best Supporting Actor and an honorary Oscar for bringing comfort to disabled veterans.
KxKJ TIL that after a 1946 plane crash, Howard Hughes decided he did not like the design of the hospital bed he was laying in. He called in his engineers and had them design a new bed that would allow someone with severe burns to move freely. It became the prototype for the modern hospital bed.
VBX1G TIL of Susan Travers, the British-born WWII veteran who was the only woman to ever serve in the French Foreign Legion
mAmR TIL From 1956 to 1996 the Mormon Church operated a program where Native American kids would be baptized and placed in Mormon foster homes, thinking it would “lighten” them. It was based on the Mormon belief that Native Americans were originally white until God punished them by making them darker.