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TIL John Fogerty Was Sued for Plagerising Himself

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JYB6m TIL: mattresses can have up to 900% markup (a $3000 mattress can cost as little as $300 to make)
ep06E TIL that the Dutch government paid over $160.000 for a squirrel bridge that has been used by 11 squirrels in the first 4 years. Last year squirrels used it 263 times. The 10 year average for a crossing is $516.
GAnjE TIL Rifleman Khan was a German Shepherd dog awarded the Dickin medal in WW2 for saving his handler from drowning after their landing craft was sunk by artillery fire
XElpr TIL when Dr. Dre sold his record collection because he wasn't using it anymore, it contained around 80,000 vinyls.
jPrn TIL Theodore Roosevelt watched his mother die of typhoid fever and then immediately had to go upstairs and see his wife die of complications from childbirth.