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TIL at least 42,000 workers remain trapped on cruise ships without paychecks

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wMkP TIL that the word “Tycoon” is a corruption of the Japanese word 大君 ‎(taikun, “great prince”). Which was the tile for the Shogun of Japan.
OobmY TIL that the colour orange was named after the fruit, not the other way around.
kJorm TIL that after Sam Cooke sang "A Change is Gonna Come" on The Tonight Show (Feb 7, 1964), the network lost the only recording of the performance. Cooke elected never to perform it again in his lifetime (he was murdered in Dec of '64), due to the song's complexity and ominous nature.
l76N1 TIL that the 1986 Buick Riviera was the first car to feature a touch screen. Here’s how in-car screens have grown through history
ObBR TIL that a couple sued AC/DC in 1981 for $250,000 because their telephone number is in the song “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” resulting in hundreds of prank calls.