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TIL Bob Dylan sued Hootie & The Blowfish over lyrics in the 1990s. And, Bob Dylan also wrote Darius Rucker's country hit, Wagon Wheel.

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PYvNG TIL that deer antlers are pretty much bone cancer. '"Deer antlers [are] using essentially a controlled form of bone cancer growth," says Edward Davis[...]. The involvement of the tumor-promoting genes isn't surprising, he says; what is surprising is the involvement of the cancer-controlling genes.'
ANkbl TIL Europe's wine owes its existence to the grafting of vines to American grape root stock that weren't vulnerable to a species of aphid that was destined to wipe the industry out.
x0wg Today I learned that an FBI agent sold secrets to the Soviets and Russia for 22 years, and when caught said, “what took you so long?”
jVmM TIL that there is a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called ‘Ceres’ which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
7rvVL TIL that in 1930 on the news bulletin the BBC reported that "There is no news" and instead played piano music