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TIL Rick and Morty only exists because Bill Cosby’s lawyers sent a cease and desist to Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon in 2005 over an internet series called ‘House of Cosbys’.

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lokoV TIL that there have been 4 instances in Major League Baseball history in which a player was traded for himself
EgGDp TIL isoamyl acetate is released by a honey bee's stinger where it serves as a pheromone beacon to attract other bees and provoke them to sting. It's also used as banana flavoring.
0K7A TIL that Conan O'Brien was the victim of stalking and death threats and that the man who stalked and threatened him was an ordained Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Boston. The man signed his letters to O'Brien as “your priest stalker”.
L88d TIL Billiards is called “Pool” because of horse race poolrooms. In the 1800s betting parlors were called poolrooms, “pool” referring to a collective bet. Billiard tables were installed in poolrooms for people to pass time between races. Eventually the phrase “shooting pool” meant playing billiards.
Movm TIL a man pain under $3 at a thrift store for a “fake” copy of the Delcaration of Independence, turns out to be an original. 36th original copy found out of 200, and sold for half a million dollars.