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TIL Suge Knight threatened to throw Vanilla Ice off a balcony if he didn’t sign him the rights to ‘Ice Ice Baby’. Suge used the money to fund Death Row Records

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eplkD TIL Thomas Edison was so upset with his son’s ineptitude in business, that he paid him $35/wk to use a different name (Jr to then use Thomas Willard).
e776 TIL that Monsanto has sued 145 individual US farmers since the 1990s for patent infringement relating to its genetically modified seed, including cases of unwanted contamination by Monsanto’s seed
kO5BB TIL That All Dinosaurs May Have Been Warm-Blooded
QVX TIL New Zealand was home to the largest known eagle until just around 1400CE, with a wingspan of 2.6 to 3m
5r1B TIL a man in Sweden was charged with child pornography and was convicted in the district court and in the court of appeal, for having drawn cartoon pictures of naked, underaged cartoon characters.