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TIL Supreme stole their famous box logo from another artist named Barbara Kruger. When Supreme sued another company for copyright infringement of their box logo, Kruger was asked for comment by a Complex editor. Her comment was “What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers”.

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VBX6Z TIL NRBQ served as the unofficial house band for The Simpsons seasons 10-12. Head writer Mike Scully was a big fan of the band and featured their music multiple times. Also NRBQ played the original song Mayonnaise and Marmalade and performed in the end credits for the episode "Take My Wife, Sleaze"
9wN1D TIL of the cockeyed squid - a species with one normal eye for looking up and one giant swollen eye for looking down.
8eBbP TIL that Montserrat's official capital, Plymouth, has been abandoned since 1997 when it was destroyed by an eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano. Since then, the de facto capital has been the town of Brades. Montserrat is the only territory on Earth with a ghost town as its capital.
0drly TIL about Limnic eruption; a very rare type of natural disaster in which dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) suddenly erupts from deep lake waters, forming a gas cloud capable of asphyxiating wildlife, livestock, and humans.
6ERrY TIL in 2007, the Oklahoma State Senate passed a bill declaring the watermelon as the official state vegetable.