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TIL that Fatboy Slim’s 1998 hit “The Rockafeller Skank” samples at least nine other songs. 100% of the song’s royalties are split evenly between four of the sampled artists.

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Z86RR TIL that 80's metal bands Twisted Sister and Manowar were involved in a feud. In an interview, Manowar called Twisted Sister a bunch of 'sissy boys with makeup'. Twisted Sister challenged them to a street fight at Covent Garden, but Manowar never showed up and later apologised for offending them.
y4EM TIL: Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, justified his actions saying: “… when Luke Skywalker blew up the Death Star, the movie audiences cheered. The bad guys were beaten. That was all that really mattered.”
GY997 TIL there is a constructed language, Esperanto, created in 1887 to be as easy to learn as possible and intended for international communication. Esperanto is estimated to have two million speakers in the world.
R7NBQ TIL that researchers from Aalto University in Finland have successfully tested quantum teleportation of macroscopic objects
LvA0 TIL contrary to popular belief, tortoises are in fact turtles rather than part of a separate group.