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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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4XrA6 TIL Newton Minow, then FCC chairman, called television a "vast wasteland" in 1961. In his "honor", Sherwood Schwartz named the ship on Gilligan's Island after him in 1964. Minow is still alive at 94.
bBNN TIL that there is a word that rhymes with orange. It’s “sporange” and is a botanical term.
W7RpA TIL of Etta Mae Lopez, a California woman who waited outside a jail all day and slapped the first deputy who came out, in order to get sent to prison where she hoped to quit smoking
emB4 TIL That Japan has 2GB/s Internet
KYmWQ TIL that in 2003, two men stole and flew a Boeing 727 from Angola’s Luanda Airport, and neither the aircraft nor the men have ever been found.