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TIL...that the sun, rotates on its axis

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1LvD TIL Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa’s son, is being sued by his father’s estate in a trademark dispute for using the Zappa name.
PpQO TIL that Jenna Jameson had her own ‘American Idol’ style TV show where porn actresses would perform sexual acts for judges.
woEXo TIL in 1974, 20 year old Beatrice Aharonowich was attacked and bitten 12 times, by a Mako Shark, and survived.
xVrow TIL: The white man in this famous photo, Peter Norman is wearing the badge of Olympic Project for Human Rights, protesting racial injustice. He was later ostracized by the Olympic committee and his home country Australia to the point where he couldn't even get a job.
VBWP8 TIL about Operation Cottage. A joint US-Canada military operation in 1943 to take back an occupied Alaskan Island. Unfortunately, Canadians and Americans mistook each other for Japanese and open fired, killing 92 soldiers and wounding over 200 others.