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TIL when Michael Jackson bought the publishing rights to the Beatles catalog, he was unaware that the Beatles owned all of the rights to Little Richard’s publishing. As soon as Michael found that out, he immediately gave Little Richard all of his publishing rights back

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e976 TIL the HP Lovecraft novella “At the Mountains of Madness” was planned to be adapted into a film directed by Guillermo del Toro, produced by James Cameron, but it has not been greenlit since 2011 due to Universal Studios wanting it to be a PG-13-rated film instead of R-rated.
RBL6 TIL Alexander the Great held a drinking contest among his soldiers. When it was over, 42 people had died from alcohol poisoning.
9YyOB TIL that in 1995 NASA updated an original study by Peter N Witt on the effects of various drugs on spiders and found similar results.
BVNx TIL Yelp itself only has a 2.5 star average with almost 6000 reviews on Yelp.
MeKKK TIL in 1825, a British geologist went to Sicily and examined the remains of a female saint. He concluded that they weren’t human and likely belonged to a goat. He told the priests, who kicked him out and then placed the bones into a casket to prevent future study.