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TIL Mad Magazine was threatened with a lawsuit after their parody of The Empire Strikes Back. The matter was dropped after Mad publisher Bill Gaines sent the lawyers a copy of a letter from George Lucas praising the satire

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loP0A TIL More police officers and firefighters die from suicide than in line of duty
awKmo TIL a video on YT called "Neutral Response" contains equal likes and dislikes (552K As of today). For 12 years, users were balancing the amount of likes and dislikes. Perfect balance for 12 years. Today, YT announced that they are removing the dislike count on all of their vids.
epeOn Today I learned that Winston Churchill's mother Jennie took as a second husband George Cornwallis West, who was 20 years her junior. Thus, Winston Churchill technically had a stepfather who was his own age (just sixteen days older, to be exact).
LL4P TIL: Mount Rushmore was originally supposed to be the president’s from head to waist but due to lack of funding they stopped construction
OP4X TIL three Marlboro men – Wayne McLaren , David McLean and Dick Hammer – died of lung cancer.