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TIL that despite being played over 10 million times, Van Morrison has never received ANY royalties from "Brown Eyed Girl".

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a8PLo TIL the first special effect in a film was The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1895
dnmd TIL the biggest lobster ever documented was in 1977- 44 lb, almost 4 feet long, and estimated to be as old as 100 years. Records show lobsters reached as big as 6 feet during colonial times!
OGZO6 TIL that Winston Churchill wrote an essay before WW2 about extraterrestrial life, and travelling to the Moon.
n0ob TIL Muhammad Ali has a star on Hollywood Boulevard, but his star is the only one to be mounted on a vertical surface, out of deference to his request that his prophets name not be walked upon.
5DMr TIL African American soldiers in World War I served under the French military because white American soldiers refused to perform with them. Many African Americans moved to France after the war because they were treated better in that country.