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TIL Weird Al donated all the profits for "Achy Breaky Song" to charity because he felt the song was "mean-spirited" since all it did was shit on Billy Ray Cyrus

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pYBRG TIL on 2008, in Douai, France, a bridegroom sued to annul his marriage because the bride wasn't virgin and had lied on the subject. He won in the High Court but lost in appeal
QN7LM TIL that Thomas Jefferson invented the swivel chair. He supposedly drafted the Declaration of Independence while sitting in his own creation, making it one of the first recorded uses of a swivel chair in history.
wjVJ TIL that in India mobile internet was used 4.1 million times per month on average to search with the word ‘rape’ over the past year.Search keywords included “Indian girls raped”, “raping video”,“raped in public”, “little girl raped”, “raping mom”, “father raping daughter” and “raped to death”.
0aA5 TIL the first known Easter egg in a video game was a secret room in Atari Adventure (1979) that credited the game’s developer, Warren Robinett. Atari did not allow their developers to be credited at the time so Robinett added the feature, told no one, and quit before anything could be done about it.
nOJY TIL High stress and too much coffee can make you hear things