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TIL about Kukur Tihar, a Nepali Hindu festival dedicated to celebrating and praising dogs. They are given treats and garlands and it considered sinful to be anything less than kind to them.

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9wrX6 TIL in 2003 rapper Pusha T wrote the McDonald’s Jingle “I’m lovin’ it” but doesn’t own publishing rights for it. Learning from this mistake, he owns 40% from the next jingle he wrote: Arby's “we have the meats”.
4XGDa TIL about the Nike Decade, a shoe line that was discontinued after members of the cult Heaven's Gate performed a mass suicide while wearing the sneakers. Pairs of the shoes now resell for thousands of dollars.
4k4A5 TIL that In 2018, Pope Francis married two flight attendants in an impromptu mid-air wedding on a plane during a trip to Chile. The couple had gotten married in a civil ceremony in 2010 but weren't able to follow it up with a church service because of the earthquake in Chile that year.
VBJP8 TIL American rapper, Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr, got his “Snoop Dogg” nickname from his mother because she thought he looked like Snoopy from the Peanuts cartoon.
5rXQ TIL Bill Murray was paid $9,000 for his role in Wes Anderson’s Rushmore. He also gave Wes a $25,000 check to pay for a helicopter scene the that the studio wouldn’t finance