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TIL that Mr. Rogers sued Ice Cube in 1990 over "A Gangsta's Fairytale" because it sampled the Mister Rogers' Neighborhood theme song.

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VXjG TIL the website hampsterdance.com was created in 1998 as a result of a competition between two Canadian sisters to see who could generate the most traffic and is one of the earliest examples of an internet meme.
78Wjb TIL of a form of Medieval prison 'sentence' where the accused was thrown in an 'oubliette'. A narrow pit where he was 'forgotten' and left to die.
1DJ4 TIL that after an unsuccessful attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln’s body in 1874, workers were hired to place the coffin further underground. They could not find a suitable area at first, so they simply set the coffin on the ground and covered it with lumber, disguising it as a woodpile for two years.
nWayW TIL that Michelle McNamara--the True Crime author whose writing gave the Golden State Killer his name, but who tragically passed away before seeing the killer brought to justice--was also the wife of comedian Patton Oswalt, who voiced Remy (the rat) from Ratatouille.
ADJVB TIL that, many years after chewing gum had been around, in 1906, the first BUBBLE gum ever sold was called Bilbber-Blubber