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TIL that the tatoo artist who inked WWE star Randy Orton filed a civil lawsuit claiming she owns the tattoo designs and WWE is infringing on her rights by using them in their Video Games.

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0de9R TIL that in 1956, songwriter Roger Miller was driving along and saw a sign on the side of a barn, ""Trailers for sale or rent". That became the first line of his new song, "King of the Road", which hit #1 on the country chart, #1 on the easy listening chart, and #4 on the Hot 100 for that year.
QJVp TIL in the United Kingdom, if an election has resulted in a tie in which candidates receive exactly the same number of votes after three recounts, the winner can be decided either by drawing straws/lots, coin flipping, or drawing the high card in a pack of cards.
5ynn TIL on April Fools’ Day 1957 the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showed a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family “spaghetti tree”. Spaghetti was so little-known that many Britons contacted the BBC for advice on growing their own trees.
6a9Q TIL of Eunus, a slave-magician who joked on stage that he planned to overthrow Roman rule and become king of Sicily. Then he led a huge slave uprising, and kept his promises to spare the lives of those who had left him tips.
1aNPO TIL: In the State of California sneaking into a movie theater, leaving an unpaid bill at a restaurant or using a ski slope without paying are all examples of the crime of "defrauding an innkeeper"