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TIL Alice's Restaurant Massacree is mostly a true story

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OGPkX TIL in 2024, the original design of Mickey Mouse loses its copyright protection. However, Disney can still take legal action if you draw it in color, because colored Mickey Mouse is still copyrighted until 2035.
oRdjL TIL that in 1951, the 3’7” (109 cm) Eddie Gaedel was put in as a pinch hitter in an MLB game. His strike zone was 1.5” (3.8 cm) high, and he was told he’d be shot if he swung at the ball. He was walked and then replaced with a pinch runner. His autograph is now worth more than Babe Ruth’s.
R5ZZ7 TIL during Michael Jackson’s worldwide HIStory tour of ‘96-‘97, he traveled for over a year and performed 82 concerts live for almost 4.5 million people, but despite selling out 98% of the available tickets, the tour would only break even due MJ’s notorious lavish spending on excesses.
mWoP TIL that, of the 15 most successful movies of 2014, none was from an original screenplay, one (American Sniper) was from a book, the rest are remakes, sequels, and comic adaptations
5Ygr9 TIL about Whitter, Alaska, an entire town in one building