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TIL because Kid Rock refused to sell his music on iTunes until 2012, his 2008 hit "All Summer Long" was out-charted on the Billboard Hot 100 by an instrumental cover from the karaoke company Hit Masters (the songs peaked at #23 and #19, respectively).

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e09gn TIL while the final season Seinfeld episode "The Puerto Rican Day" (which featured a controversial flag-burning scene) was pulled by NBC and Sony, the episode quietly made its way onto the syndication package four years after its airing in 2002
OGZE1 TIL about 'Sexual Parasitism' in Anglerfish, where the male dwarf fish bites an adult female, latches on, fusing its tissues to the female host to eventually share one circulatory system. The male eventually withers away, and all that is left is its testes.
XELxE TIL Don Henley's "The End of the Innocence" was co-written by Bruce Hornsby, and Bruce Hornsby played the piano for the studio album; both artists perform this song at their concerts.
wLeWW TIL the cult that committed mass suicide in Jonestown began as a rare desegregated Pentecostal-Holiness church in Indianapolis in the 1950s, with lots of progressive programs like free food and legal advice for the poor
mxajY TIL about Desmond Doss, a WWII medic who was teased for his choice to not harm the enemy or wield a weapon. He would go on to win the Medal of Honor for saving more than 50 men after a mortar attack, and the heroics were made into the award winning movie "Hacksaw Ridge".