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TIL Prince backed out of singing w/Michael Jackson on Bad, b/c of the line "your butt is mine" Prince said Now, who is going to sing that to whom? Cause [he] sure ain’t singing that to me, and I sure ain’t singing it to [him].”

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bjo7 TIL that the average Cheetah’s stride when it is running full speed is around 21 feet in length.
pYP4A TIL in 2005, Michael Jackson planned to build a 50ft robot of himself that would "wander in the [Nevada] desert as an advertisement" for a proposed Las Vegas residency. Funding problems shelved both the robot and residency, and a Nov 2009 meeting to revisit the idea was cancelled once Jackson died
v1RW8 TIL The company Luis Vuitton collaborated with the Nazis during World War II.
5YZwk TIL alpacas are being used as bodyguards in some turkey farms, since they instinctively accept the birds into their herd and scare off foxes.
VMEkQ TIL A retired electrical engineer named Bruce Campbell had an old Boeing 727 delivered to the woods near Portland, OR and converted it to his home where he lives full time