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TIL - Ginger Baker, Drummer of 60s band Cream, does not receive royalties, despite creating the band and contributing to many of their songs.

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AlJx TIL During WWII when Hitler visited Paris, the French cut the lift cables on the Eiffel Tower so that Hitler would have to climb the steps if he wanted to visit the summit. Hitler never went on the Eiffel Tower and it has been said that Hitler conquered France, but never conquered the Eiffel Tower.
OGaA7 TIL that Michael Cain only changed his name LEGALLY by deed poll in 2016 from his birth name of Maurice Joseph Micklewhite becasue he was tired of being stopped at passport control. Everyone knew him by his showbiz name but his legal documents had his bith name.
VBglB TIL of the worlds oldest recorded cat, Crème Puff, who lived to be 38yo, enjoyed red wine and coffee with cream, and had a brother who lived to be 34yo.
BAPe TIL Davy Crockett, as a Congressman in the the U.S. House of Representatives, opposed President Andrew Jackson’s 1830 Indian Removal Act and was the only member of the Tennessee delegation to vote against it. Six years later he died defending the Alamo.
NAgQ TIL a German court recently ruled that men have a right to pee standing (be a ‘stehpinkler’ as against a 'sitzpinkler’) and that landlords cannot expect to be compensated for the resulting damages to the bathroom floor.