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TIL In 1998, Elvis Costello wrote an anthem for Angelica Pickles in The Rugrats Movie, that was performed by No Doubt

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QXok TIL that, when Charles DeGaulle ordered the removal of U.S. Troops from France in 1966, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked if that included the 60,000+ American Soldiers buried there from the first two world wars. An embarrassed DeGaulle never clarified the point. (Happy Memorial Day)
GyKE TIL Many Employees at Disney World in Orlando, Florida are Homeless
WnVL TIL George Lucas came back from shooting Star Wars in England to find Industrial Light & Magic only had 3 of the 365 shots completed yet had spent half of their $2 million. He was hospitalized for hypertension and vowed to never direct another film
Z8OAa TIL Sergei Rachmaninoff's greatest hit is 1975's "All By Myself," in which Eric Carmen unknowingly included copyright protected melody structure from Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto, thinking it was public domain. It wasn't, having been originally published in 1901.
b6rDa Today I learned : Who the Indigenous people of Sicily are.