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TIL Tom Waits successfully sued Frito Lay for over $2million for their commercial illegally using one of his songs which, ironically, was written as an indictment of advertising.

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daBB TIL there is a pro US propoganda news network that broadcasts in multiple languages in many different countries. This news network recieves almost double the federal dollars that PBS recieves, and was illegal for Americans to view up until 8 months ago.
69GWZ TIL the Triforium, a six-story sculpture near Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, was supposed to track the motions and conversations of people near it and convert them into patterns of light, and also point giant lasers toward the sky spelling out "Los Angeles." But its artist designer ran out of money
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