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TIL Jon Fogerty from the band Creedence Clearwater Revival was sued by his record company for sounding too much like himself

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wo6BM TIL: New Zealand eliminated one- and two-cent coins of the New Zealand dollar in April 1990, and the five-cent coin in October 2006.
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