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TIL with a poem written for Elizabeth l, William Shakespeare was a rapper!

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a8J1A TIL in the 1980s, Jim Davis wanted plush Garfields made with Velcro so people could hang them on curtains, but the factory mistakenly returned the prototype with suction cups. He approved it. They soon became a craze and people were putting them on car windows and smashing car windows to steal them.
jNYVQ TIL that the song "Prisencolinensinainciusol", which is supposed to sound like english despite being complete gibberish, is considered to be the first rap song by some people.
5YQAB TIL dinosaurs in the stegosaurus suborder have a cluster of spikes on their tails informally referred to by paleontologists as "Thagomizer", stemming from a 1982 joke in Gary Larson's The Far Side
GYdkg TIL the Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer story idea was initially rejected, as in the 1930s red noses were associated with alcoholism and drunkards. The author asked an illustrator friend to draw "cute reindeer," and these drawings convinced management to support the idea.
wLbdM TIL that famous psychic and prophet Jeanne Dixon predicted (in 1971) that the world would end in 2020.