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TIL Pearl Jam has been calculating the carbon footprint from their tours since 2003, and have donated enough to environmental projects to counter that.

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ae1A TIL Meghan Trainor’s song “All About That Bass” plagiarized its melody from a Korean song that came out 8 years earlier.
jdaa TIL that drinking caffeine-containing beverages can reduce the harmful effects of sun-exposure, effectively acting like an oral sunscreen
M7VO7 TIL "The Humpty Dance" by The Digital Underground is one of the most sampled songs recorded by a hip hop/rap artist, boasting over 100 usages in other songs.
QJAOX TIL Squanto was taken from his home village, transported to Europe, conscripted into slavery, escaped and made his way back to his homeland, only to find he was the last of his tribe.
e0G4 TIL - in 2009 Bill Gates purchased the rights to the Feynman Lectures so that he could annotate them and make them freely available.