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TIL the 1972 pornographic film Deep Throat reportedly earned as much as $600M, which may have been inflated by gangsters in money laundering schemes

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OobyR TIL of Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln, a Hungarian Jew, throughout his life he had jobs such as a Christian Priest, an MP and conman, in WW1 he became a German spy, took part in a Nationalist Revolt in Germany and met Hitler, left to China and was a Buddhist Abbot and claimed he was the next Dali Lamar.
GB9j TIL that Rihanna was sued for her use of the sample “Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa” in her song “Please Don’t Stop the Music” because she only got permission for using it via Michael Jackson from his use of the sample in “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin” and not from the original artist Manu Dibango.
jNovR TIL: What does Wuhan Coronavirus look like and what are its internal components.
a0GJ TIL Mohammed al Qahtani (20th hijacker of the 9/11 attacks) was interrogated at Guantanamo Bay by dripping water, physical torture, prolonged strip searches, and invasion of space by a female, none of which worked; it was continuously hearing Christina Aguilera’s “Dirrty” that finally broke him.
VBQBk TIL more than 140 home runs have been "splash hits" since San Francisco's Oracle Park opened in 2000, 35 of those by Barry Bonds alone. At PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Josh Bell homered into the Allegheny twice in one month.