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TIL: the bill of rights had stuff in there that got “oligarched” out…

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jNlKE TIL that Vanilla Ice used Queen and David Bowie's Under Pressure song baseline for his one-hit wonder Ice Ice Baby but didn't pay any royalties to Queen or Bowie. After facing a lawsuit, he then claimed he purchased the song Under Pressure in an interview, only to be corrected by a Queen spokesman.
GAR04 TIL Siblings separated at birth end up just as similar as siblings reared together (height, weight, IQ, academic performance, general cognitive ability). Parenting account for close to 0% of the variation (although abusive parenting is known to cause problems).
jL5M TIL a family fighting a $474,000 hospital bill, got charged $12 for each of those little paper cups nurses give you when they administer pills
9w7R6 TIL Tunisia had an infamously bad performance in modern pentathlon at the 1960 Olympics. One athlete nearly drowned; one got disqualified for firing a pistol too close to the judges; three fell off horses; and they were caught cheating in the fencing part of the event.
XEV8E TIL to please Lord Indra, Hindu god of rain, people in drought-stricken Bhopal, India "married" a frog couple. Then in light of heavy rainfall (26% more than normal) in the area, the frogs were "divorced" less than 2 months after their "wedding" in hopes the divorce would end the rain.