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TIL that Justin Long was drugged and abducted while filming Youth in Revolt in Michigan.

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PYGxJ TIL that Islam is younger than Christianity.
6mAQ TIL toy manufacturer Mattel sued MCA Records over Aqua’s 1997 hit “Barbie Girl”. After ruling the lawsuit (and MCA’s countersuit) be dismissed due to parody protection under the 1st amendment, the judge concluded his ruling by stating: “The parties are advised to chill.”
D17MJ TIL that in 2005 an art collector had Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction houses play Rock Paper Scissors to decide who got to sell his twenty million dollar collection.
1aO7D TIL the USA only ranks #43 in a list of countries by home ownership rate (64.5%). Romania is 1st with 96.4%.
JYvBV TIL a century after the bloody and violent Hatfield–McCoy feud in West Virginia/Kentucky, the two families faced off again on the game show "Family Fued" in 1979. The teams received a mannequin for every match they won as the producers thought it would be funny to “litter the stage with bodies”.