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TIL Michael Jackson’s 1994 settlement with the family that accused him of abusing Jordan Chandler did not prevent them from testifying in a criminal trial, and specifically states that Jackson admitted to no wrongdoing. The family took the money and stopped cooperation with the police investigation

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gMNBL TIL that in thanks to Benjamin Franklin, all electrical diagrams (at least in the U.S.) are technically backwards (in terms of electron flow/direction). He assumed the flow of electricity originated from the positive terminal of a current source, and traveled to the negative terminal.
R5wy6 TIL Since the 1960s there have been more pieces composed for the recorder than in all the centuries before, despite its golden age being in the baroque and Renaissance. The Mandalorian features soundtrack of a trio of bass recorders composed by Ludwig Göransson
oj4o TIL the age of consent in Nevada is 16…unless you’re gay. Then it’s 18.
b9QVE TIL that most of Sam Jones' lines in Flash Gordon were dubbed by another (unknown?) actor, after quitting before the movie was finished and that George Lucas had originally wanted to make it, but went to to film Star Wars instead, which also had a famously (deliberately, this time) dubbed actor. #20
awxy9 TIL Margaret Thatcher performed a short live sketch with "Yes Minister" actors portraying their characters Jim Hacker and Humphrey during an award ceremony, and Creator Jonathan Lynn thanked Thatcher "for taking her rightful place in the field of situation comedy."