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TIL in 2013 when Ed Sheeran's "The A Team" received a Grammy nomination Elton John tried to get Ed a performance slot at the award show, but was told he was not high-profile enough. Elton decided to perform with Ed to solve the problem.

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YZ0Z TIL in 2006, Bank of America had someone jailed for inquiring about the legitimacy of a check. The uproar cost BoA $50 million worth of withdrawals from irate customers.
JYagk TIL in 2004, Seth Putnam -- vocalist of the grindcore band Anal C**t, whose offensive song titles included "You're Gay" and "You're in a Coma" -- overdosed and ironically lapsed into a brief coma. He later stated that actually being in a coma "was just as gay [and] fuckin' stupid as I wrote it was."
yMxV TIL The inventor of auto-tune forgot to patent his idea in germany. Emagic created a similar program. Then Apple bought [Emagic], and integrated it into their Logic Pro software. his company’s reaction: “We can’t sue them, it would put us out of business. They’re too big to sue.”
4XQjJ TIL in 1963 biologist and animal psychologist James McConnell conditioned planarian flatworms to fear a bright light by electrocuting them. He would then grind up those flatworms and feed them to other worms who had not participated in the experiment. Those worms were afraid of the light.
69oV8 TIL Craig Mazin, who wrote such comedy movies as Scary Movie 3 and The Hangover Part II, later went on to co-create Chernobyl and The Last of Us.