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TIL Michael Jackson faced heavy backlash from fellow Jehovah’s Witnesses for the Thriller video and had to add a disclaimer to the beginning that assured he was not a believer in the occult.

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8VPb TIL the family of a deceased man in Winter Haven, Florida claimed the cause of his death was an upper-cut from Batman in his newspaper obituary notice.
dkx7 TIL that Nestle actively supports child trafficking and child slavery in Africa to obtain cocoa. Several organizations have been trying to end Nestle’s involvement, and in 2005 Nestle signed an ILO agreement to stop supporting child labor. 10 years later, Nestle has yet to stop.
0yYL TIL in 1975 a county clerk in Colorado issued a same-sex marriage license, finding no law that forbade it. When a man came to her office to marry his horse in protest, she determined the 8-year-old horse was too young to get married without parental consent and refused the license.
GYPd4 TIL that famous stunt performer and daredevil Evel Knievel was about to die because he couldn't get a life-saving liver transplant. When he was literally going to die in his house he got a phonecall. There was a liver available from a young guy who just passed away... in a motorcycle accident.
OoWM7 TIL the US agriculture industry was using an arsenic additive for chicken feed up until 2011, and at its peak 1000 tons of it were produced every year. The FDA finally banned its use in 2015, four years after the industry stopped using it.