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TIL that Campbell Soup considered litigation against Andy Warhol's soup can paintings but instead embraced them.

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oBbvK TIL German author Hermann Hesse's mother was born in India. His grandfather compiled the Malayalam language, wrote the English-Malayalam dictionary & translated the Bible from English to Malayalam. This all lead to his 1922 novel 'Siddhartha'.
ANWM7 TIL that in 1684 Henry Morgan the "privateer" successfully sued the publishers of the books on piracy in the Caribbean for libel; as a result, the description of Morgan using nuns and monks as human shields were purged from subsequent British editions of "History of the Buccaneers of America"
9Yr6m TIL John Quincy Adams (6th US President) was a 'hollow earther' and wanted to meet 'the mole people'. He authorized an expedition to find them.
kJ7A7 TIL about Julia Butterfly Hill, and American environmental activist who lived in a giant redwood tree for 738 days to stop it from being cut down by a logging company
dD67Z TIL that Trading Places was supposed to be a Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor film, but got recast after Pryor's freebasing accident.