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TIL - Haim Saban & Shuki Levy, famous for composing many TV show themes (Inspector Gadget, Mysterious Cities of Gold, M.A.S.K., He-Man, She-Ra), were actually ghostwritten by other composers to gain control of all publishing rights and music royalty revenue. The suit was settled out of court.

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6E77Y TIL that there is a 'copyleft', distinguished from copyright, is the practice of offering people the right to freely distribute copies and modified versions of a work with the stipulation that the same rights be preserved in derivative works created later.
VvBm TIL: Killer Whales, aka Orcas, are actually not whales–they’re the largest member of the Dolphin family.
gMOdW TIL sheep shearing is not animal cruelty. If sheep are not sheared they can experience a lot of health problems. There was a sheep in Australia that was found unsheared for six years, five time the wool of normal sheep, with damaged hooves and skin infections from urine trapped under his wool.
VB0Pm TIL Peter Norman, the Australian silver medalist photographed in the iconic 1968 Olympics photo alongside two black athletes with a raised fist wore a badge in support of their protest, and turned down a lucrative job offer during the 2000 Sydney Olympics because he refused to renounce his actions.
X7pQ TIL That thanks to the series finale of St Elsewhere, and using actual cross over links (i.e. characters appearing on other shows), it can be argued the greater implication is that dozens of other shows existed in the mind of an autistic child.