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TIL: Sarah McLachlan was once sued by an obsessed fan because she used one of his delusional letters as the basis for her hit song "Possession." He committed suicide before it went to court.

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6EwkX TIL: When the dinosaurs were alive there were erupting volcanoes on the moon.
xV7RD TIL that New York once banned women from smoking in public to “save their souls.”
1aV84 TIL after the holidays the Rockefeller Christmas tree is donated to Habitat For Humanity and used to build homes for those in need.
BrgNb TIL that using a countdown in rocket launches was invented as a dramatic device for a 1920s movie, then later borrowed by NASA for real life launches.
Brvdb TIL Rankin and Bass animators in Japan who worked on classic Christmas specials like Santa Clause is Coming to Town and Frosty the Snowman later were part of founding Studio Ghibli where they worked on My Neighbor Totoro and other classic Miyazaki films.