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TIL that Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by mistake.

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GB9j TIL that Rihanna was sued for her use of the sample “Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa” in her song “Please Don’t Stop the Music” because she only got permission for using it via Michael Jackson from his use of the sample in “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin” and not from the original artist Manu Dibango.
8ePxX TIL the band Coven threatened to sue KISS' Gene Simmons when he attempted to trademark the "devil horns" gesture in 2017
KRDQ TIL Snuffeupagus became a real character (instead of Big Bird’s imaginary friend) because of a string of high profile child sexual abuse cases. The writers didn’t want children to be afraid of telling their parents about being abused because of the fear of not being believed.
X06QP TIL pumpkin pie and Thanksgiving were a matter of mid-19th century identity politics. When Abraham Lincoln declared a day of Thanksgiving on the last Thursday of November in 1863, many Southern families refused Thanksgiving and especially pumpkin pie as cultural artifacts of the Yankees.
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