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TIL that when Michael Jackson granted Weird Al Yankovic permission to do "Fat" (a parody of "Bad"), Jackson allowed him to use the same set built for his own "Badder" video from the Moonwalker film. Yankovic said that Jackson's support helped to gain approval from other artists he wanted to parody.

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XEYNX TIL Cebu City is the busiest sea port in the Philippines and was also once a bustling commercial hub between Mexico and China. However, almost none of its long coastline contains beaches and it is instead occupied by industry, ports, slums and marshlands
1akV7 TIL that in 1859, a guy released 24 rabbits for hunting into the wild in Australia, a country which had no native rabbit population then. By 1920, their population increased to 10 billion. This is the fastest spread ever recorded of any mammal.
xVdR7 TIL The Russian famine of 1921 and 1922, primarily affecting the Volga and Ural River regions, got so bad that people would resort to cannibalism and even sell their children.
m18eY TIL wild mammals account for only 4% of the total mammal biomass on Earth (humans account for 36% and domesticated livestock 60%)
ejK4 TIL Thomas Baker was wounded and didn’t want to get help. Instead, he was given a pistol with 8 bullets. Later, around his dead body were 8 dead enemies and an empty pistol. He received a Medal of Honor posthumously.