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TIL New Zealand rock band changed their name from Shihad to Pacifer in Jan 2002 to avoid being mistaken for the term Jihad which was a term heard often due to the events of 9/11. 'Shihad' had not long attempted to break into the American market when the attacks took place.

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Me918 TIL that Rodney Dangerfield is considered one of the first content-creating celebrities on the internet. He owned and ran it himself, personally replying to fans via email
Edrp TIL the earliest documented version of Cinderella is Chinese.
kOng1 TIL Fascist Dictator Benito Mussolini was part of the Italian Socialist Party during WW1 before being expelled.
5N4Q TIL in 1980s when a baboon troop was hit by a outbreak of tuberculosis killing all of its aggressive alpha males, the remaining passive males which were bullied by previous alpha males transformed the troop from an aggressive and violent troop into a peaceful one, which had never been seen before.
BgrNL TIL about Agloe, New York. A fake town created by a US map company as a copyright trap that became real when a man put a general store there and named it after the name he saw on the map. The map company learned about this right when they sued a competitor for plagiarism and thus lost the case.