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TIL that American Rapper Pusha T wrote the famous McDonald's jingle "I'm lovin it" in 2003 but does not own any of the publishing rights for it. He learned from his multi-million dollar mistake and now owns 40% of the publishing rights of the “We have the meats" campaign from Arby's.

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KYOYR TIL Ray Charles's final film role was a guest star in, "Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Musical Movie."(2000) prior to his death four years later in 2004.
jNMMN TIL Disney is the second largest buyer of explosives in US, right behind Department of Defense!
YpjBG TIL Master of Puppets was the first metal album to be preserved by the US Library of Congress
BDBy TIL that between 1941-1944, Turkish diplomats saved thousands of Jews by issuing them Turkish passports and sometimes pulling them off trains headed for the death camps. Among these diplomats was Necdet Kent, whose son Muhtar Kent, is the current chairman and former chief executive of Coca-Cola.
OG6Ea TIL Tim Derk invented the T-Shirt Cannon in the mid 1990s. It was inspired by "spud launchers" during wartime, and quickly caught on with sports team mascots.