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TIL Johnny Cash's song "A Boy Named Sue" was actually written by Shel Silverstein (author/poet of children's books "The Giving Tree"; "Where the Sidewalk Ends"; and "A Light in the Attic")

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JYkM8 TIL in 2005 a Swedish ISP was sued by an anti-piracy group (supported by Paramount, EMI, and Sony) for copyright infringement. An internal investigation revealed that the incriminating material had been planted by insiders hired by the anti-piracy group. A deal was struck and the case was dropped.
rREwo TIL that there are only 22 countries in the world that Great Britain HASN'T invaded.
GmGQ TIL King James VI of Scotland was so notorious for not reading official papers before signing them, his court jester was able to get him to sign his own abdication papers, making his jester King for 15 days.
N7AJ8 TIL the "Cardinal King" Henry the Chaste of Portugal never expected the throne, as he was an elderly man vowed to celibacy, doomed without successors. He attempted to resign the clergy to produce an heir, but Spain pressured the pope to deny him. When Henry died, Spain annexed Portugal for 60 years
xKb1 TIL naturalist John Muir “kidnapped” Theodore Roosevelt from a party and took him into the wilderness to see the beauty of Yosemite, in turn prompting the U.S. president to double the number of national parks