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TIL that Mastercard’s memorable “Priceless” ad campaign was plagiarized. The original is “There are things money can’t buy, but, for everything else, there is Bancard” - Wikipedia

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b9N89 TIL that works by Martin Luther King, Ralph Ellison, Carl Jung, Timothy Leary, and more, including the original Mary Poppins and Pink Panther movies, would have entered the public domain in 2021 if the United States hadn't started extending copyright terms in 1976.
KYNRQ TIL: 60 to 80 percent of marriages among professional athletes end in divorce.
E1DW TIL Macaulay Culkin, child star of the Home Alone films, bought Marilyn Manson his first pack of cigarettes during the filming of Party Monster in 2003. He said he thought this ironic as Manson is meant to be seen as an ‘anarchist’ and it’s Culkin corrupting him.
OoOD1 TIL That the Maya civilization used chocolate as money. Chocolate—in the form of fermented and dried cacao beans—was "almost certainly" a key Maya currency. Running out of it may have played a role in their downfall.
9wOMD TIL There is a kind of kite that work underwater, call tidal kites. In fact it is high-tech tidal turbines, generating electricity from the power of the ocean.