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TIL Jimmy Buffett had to sue two entities for the right to open Margaritaville in Key West as they had copywrited the title and a woman in Hawaii copywrited Cheeseburger in Paradise. He had to fight to get the rights to the song he wrote.

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DQdPY TIL that President Franklin D. Roosevelt never supported First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's anti-lynching campaign for fear of alienating white Democratic voters in the south.
LaeQ TIL America’s first female mayor was elected in 1887. A group of men nominated her as a joke intended to humiliate women, but instead she won over 60% of the vote.
p874b TIL in 2001 Shrek premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was the first animated film to compete since 1953.
W7gR8 TIL about fatal familial insomnia (FFI), an extremely rare brain disease that causes the victim to lose their ability of sleep permanently, resulting in death
Wk144 TIL about Sybil Ludington, a 16 year-old girl who rode to alert militia forces on the night of April 26, 1777, and who, reportedly, rode twice the distance as Paul Revere.