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TIL about Stefan Lanka's Measles lawsuit. Lanka claimed that measles did not actually exist and was in the mind. He offered €100,000 to anyone who could prove the disease existed. After he rejected medical papers, David Bardens, a German doctor, took him to court. Lanka lost and was ordered to pay.

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OaBX TIL There is a sport originating from Finland in which a man races an obstacle course while carrying his wife, and is rewarded for a win by her weight in beer.
8ek8Z TIL Charles Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, continually hated his comic’s name throughout his life. Whenever he was asked what he did for a living, he avoided using the comic’s official name, and instead said, "I draw that comic strip with Snoopy in it, Charlie Brown and his dog".
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W74ON TIL about Operation Snow White, a criminal conspiracy by the Church of Scientology during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. It included a infiltrations and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates.
0451 TIL that since 2013, a YouTube view is counted as a sale of a song, in the sense that it is counted toward the certification of a song as Gold (500k copies), Platinum (1M copies), or Diamond (10M copies)