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TIL that Radiohead sued Lana Del Rey for plagiarizing the chord progression and vocal style of "Creep" for her song "Get Free", requesting 100% of the royalties. Radiohead was sued by the Hollies previously for using that same chord progression found in the Hollies' song "The Air That I Breathe".

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woEw7 TIL about Pole Sitting Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly was the most famous of the sitters.
0nwp TIL that the pressure in a Jumping Spider’s body makes it explode when studied. Scientists had to invent special micro-tools to finally get a look at their brains.
N7RdQ TIL about The Song of Roland, 11th-century epic poem which is the oldest surviving major work of French literature and exists in various manuscript versions. The final text has about 4,000 lines of poetry.
gMBN8 TIL that in 1916 soldiers with a femur fracture had an 80% chance of dying. The introduction of the Thomas Splint reversed this statistic, giving soldiers with the same injury an 80% survival rate by 1917.
GYEXG TIL Congress has met outside Washington DC twice since 1800: July 16, 1987, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of ratification of the Constitution, & at Federal Hall in New York on September 11, 2002, to mark the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks.