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TIL that the YMCA threatened to sue the Village People for their song YMCA until they noticed their membership significantly increased in the wake of the song’s popularity

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Eg0Ow TIL in January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg filed eight "quiet title and partition" lawsuits against hundreds of native Hawaiians to claim small tracts of land which they owned on the island of Kauai. This land is contained within the 700 acres of land that Zuckerberg had purchased in 2014.
nLZP TIL that soon after his presidency, William Howard Taft lost 80 pounds and explored Alaska.
4XPeN TIL There are 5 Ages of the Universe. We are in the second (the Stelliferous Era), which is dominated by galaxies and new stars. But during the Degenerate Era, there will be no fuel for new stars, leaving only stellar corpses like white and brown dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes.
4djX TIL that in Switzerland a seven-member Federal Council serves as the collective head of state, with each member leading an executive department. The current council consists of four men and three women from five different political parties.
W7Nn9 TIL that one of the waitresses on the show "Alice" was supposed to be a relative of Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg, the white-suited Southern crimelord from "The Dukes of Hazzard."