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TIL Australian band, Men At Work were sued over their song "Down Under" for similarities to an Australian nursery rhyme "Kookaburra".

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4xma TIL that zoos around the world are raising cheetah kittens with puppy companions to help the cheetahs deal with excess energy, learn social cues, and combat stress
R5WP8 TIL the man whose wife and five Sunday school students were killed during WWII by a Japanese balloon bomb in Oregon then married the older sister of two of the Sunday schoolers, went to South Vietnam for missionary work with his new family, was kidnapped by the Viet Cong, and remains missing.
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