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TIL that 16 years after Michael Jackson’s death, his estate earned $600 million in 2024 from a music catalog deal more than any living celebrity, even Taylor Swift

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yVB8X TIL About Vincent 'Chin' Gigante who was the Don of the Genovese crime family. Ultimately convicted of racketeering and obstruction of justice charges Gigante spent years feigning insanity walking around Greenwich Village in a bathrobe mumbling incoherently.
VB7mB TIL George Carlin’s 1972 “Seven Dirty Words” routine (“shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits”) led to a 1978 Supreme Court case affirming FCC power to regulate indecent broadcasts. Carlin defended “tits” as too harmless for the list, joking it sounded like a snack food.
d8ja7 TIL that after decades of Florida’s convoluted fireworks law that supposedly made them illegal (but allowed the sale for unlikely purposes, which purchasers would sign “official” forms attesting to), fireworks are now legal for all residents on New Year’s and the Fourth of July.
VB0BD TIL that an XY genetic male was born with a womb, and was able to give birth to twins
vPGk7 TIL that There are only two sets of escalators in the entire state of Wyoming. Both of them are located in banks in the city of Casper.