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TIL the man on the cover of Matchbox 20's "Yourself or Someone Like You" sued the band for unapproved image usage 9 years after the album's release. The delay was because the man was never told the purpose of posing for the photo, and wasn't aware of the album during its original 12m+ sales run

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yVOve TIL: While the blue macaws that were featured in the movie Rio were declared extinct in the wild in 2018, 8 Spix's blue macaws that had been raised in captivity were released in Brazil in June of 2022. They seem to be doing well and more releases are planned for December 2022.
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6B8W TIL that at the outbreak of WWII the British people killed 750,000 pets in one week