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TIL in 1985, John Fogerty of CCR was sued for sounding like himself in his solo music. The cost: $1.1 million in legal fees. He pushed it to the Supreme Court to fight the double standard of defendants not being awarded the fees & won, setting a precedent that defends artists from corporate sabotage

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1A9V TIL That dinosaur erotica exists (with actual titles like “Ravished By The Triceratops”) and is apparently pretty profitable
b6vG0 TIL about the Arecibo message, a radio message consisting of information about humans and Earth that was sent to globular star cluster M13 in 1974, in hopes that extraterrestrial life would receive and decode it.
axMo TIL the original “Siamese Twins” fathered a total of 21 children, and their descendants now number more than 1,500.
6EGkQ TIL: The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority officially recognizes port 666 as the port for the First Person Shooter: Doom
aw88N TIL that The Grinch was the biggest box-office hit of 2000.