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TIL: Puddle Of Mudd's cover of About A Girl was not a joke, as a response to critics Wes Scantlin states “Toxic People Are a Waste of Time”.

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7Krb TIL actor Martin Sheen has been married to the same woman for 56 years
1aRo7 TIL that a conman, J.D. McMahon, managed to collect $200,000 from investors in building a 40 ft-tall (480 in or 12 m) building- the infamous Newby-McMahon Building, also known as the world's littlest skyscraper. McMahon neglected to specify that the building’s scale was measured in inches, not feet.
4Xlj6 TIL Concorde had to reduce its cruising speed when it was painted blue for a promotional deal with Pepsi, because otherwise the plane would overheat
xVMZw TIL from 1897-1907 the US Department of Labor commissioned several reports on the condition of Blacks in America, culminating in a damning report by W.E.B. Du Bois on the exploitation of Blacks in Alabama. Rather than publish the report, the DOL destroyed all copies and halted the studies.
GQ1j TIL that if economic losses reported by the media industry due to piracy are true, it would equal the entire American corn crop, fruit crop, wheat, cotton, tobacco, rice, and sorghum crops. Combined.