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TIL: Hootie & the Blowfish had to pay $350k to Bob Dylan for using 'Tangled Up in Blue' & 'Idiot Wind' as lyrics in their tune 'Only Want to be with You'

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vZp4 TIL sperm whales sleep vertically.
R5Vr1 TIL that to join the EU, Austria had to lift its blanket ban on members of the Habsburg family entering Austria because it was a violation of human rights
OZ6e TIL in 1833 a meteor shower occurred that was so intense that “the frequency of meteors was estimated to be about half that of flakes of snow in an average snowstorm.”
xpyw TIL the guy who optimized web traffic so that sites didn’t crash displaying The Phantom Menace trailer was the first guy killed in 9/11.
BrdZW TIL that the US has technically been a metric nation since 1975 but just hasn't enforced the system onto private companies and people.