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TIL that for Fatboy Slim to clear all the audio samples in his 1998 hit single The Rockafeller Skank (aka Funk Soul Brother), he had to give away 100% of the track's royalties

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E1d87 TIL that Hitler was a German intelligence agent after World War I. His first assignment was to infiltrate the German Worker's Party. Hitler quickly became the face of the party, and five months after the army ordered him to join, Hitler renamed it the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
9wODG TIL Wayne Brady wrote a spoken word called: “A Piece by the Angriest Black Man in America (or, How I Learned to Forgive Myself for Being a Black Man in America)”
6EnvW TIL Honeymoon Rhinitis is a condition that causes runny nose and nasal congestion during arousal and sex
R7oN1 TIL of the existence of "scholarly publishing stings", in which academics submit absurd research papers to scholarly journals to test if the editors are actually paying attention. Sometimes, these are accepted and published.
kJOX5 TIL Hitler frequently used crystal meth