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TIL Michael Jackson's "Billy Jean" was a real stalker who sent Jackson multiple letters claiming he was the father of one of her twins, culminating in sending him a handgun and an invitation to a murder-suicide. It was also based on multiple women who harassed his brothers while in the Jackson 5.

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0w9VA TIL that US president George H.W. Bush vomited on then prime minister of Japan.
nJLY TIL: The familiar “Michelin Man” mascot was created in 1894 and he is named Bibendum. Although tires today are black, prior to 1912 they were beige or all-white, hence the mascot being white.
OWe4 TIL that comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter in 1994, after being broken apart from Jupiter’s tidal gravity. One fragment struck the planet’s surface with the estimated energy of 6 million megatons of TNT (600 times the world’s nuclear arsenal) and created a dark spot over 12,000 km across.
4XpBw TIL that the 2011 earthquake in Japan was so powerful it moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4m (8 ft) to the east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm and 25 cm, and increased earth's rotational speed by 1.8 µs per day.
e0MO6 TIL Pakistan used Indian currency notes from 1947 to 1948, Indian notes were stamped with ‘Government of Pakistan’ title | The Reserve Bank of India acted as the common currency authority for India and Pakistan until September 1948