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ANAyg TIL Elton John has frequently said that without songwriter Bernie Taupin there would be no Elton John. The have been collaborating on music for 56 years, since Elton was 20 and Bernie was 17. A few songs of Taupin’s: Crocodile Rock, Candle in the Wind and Rocket Man.
loO65 TIL heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt sued her mother and two surgeons in the 1930s for sterilising her during an appendectomy after declaring her a "moron", so that her mother could claim her inheritance if she died childless. She lost.
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7XDr TIL The numerical tattoo inked on the arms of Auschwitz prisoners was originally an IBM identification number used to track that prisoner in the punch card system.
W7pWL TIL That Abraham Lincoln once pooped in his own hat because of a prank gone wrong.