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TIL Prince shares several songwriting credits with his father

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awKey TIL: Perdue Pharma distributed a music CD to physicians titled “Get in the Swing with OxyContin”
J1rEB TIL that in 1966, following the success of The Fantastic Four, DC Comics created The Inferior Five, a parody "superhero" team whose members include Awkwardman (superstrong but clumsy), the Blimp (can fly but very slowly), White Feather (skilled archer but cowardly), among others.
6AZm TIL a British bioengineering company has genetically modified genes in male mosquitoes to pass a ‘suicide gene’ on to its offspring in an effort to reduce Dengue Fever.
D1BDJ TIL chief justice John Marshall and his fellow justices enjoyed Madeira wine, but set a rule that they would only drink on rainy days. When Marshall was told it was a sunny day, he said, 'this is a large area we have jurisdiction over, I'm sure it's raining somewhere.'
MedB0 TIL Stock trader Jesse Livermore, who made $100 million from short positions during Wall Street Crash of 1929 is actually the great-grandfather of Brandi Love (Tracey Lynn Livermore), a famous American porn actress