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TIL The Offspring used to print & sell Napster t-shirts without permission

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BdjK TIL that Monty Python did a pirate movie with Cheech & Chong, called “Yellow Beard”, I have to see this film!
Z8neB TIL: In 2002 a Welshman in Bury St. Edmunds refusing to pay a small penalty charge for a vehicle-registration violation demanded a trial by combat with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency. His demand was rejected, and he was fined by a court.
Vx6k TIL “Liver-eating Johnson” was an American mountain man rumored to have killed, scalped, and/or eaten the livers of up to 300 Crow Indians after a group of Crow braves murdered his wife. He ate the liver because it had significance for Crow beliefs about the afterlife
69pX7 TIL that researchers have developed a blood test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer before symptoms appear, with a false positive rate of less than 1%
gYeD TIL Howie Mandel (voice of Gizmo in Gremlins) has a separate, smaller house in his back yard to live in when one of his family members is sick due to his irrational fear of germs.