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TIL: When Davie Bowie heard Nirvana’s cover of “The Man Who Sold the World”, he said he was “blown away” by the fact Kurt Cobain liked his work, and said “it would have been nice to have worked with him, but just talking with him would have been real cool”

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KOGDw TIL “Our local group alone is 10 million light-years in diameter, containing the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, along with about 50 dwarf galaxies, but that only accounts for 0.00000000001 percent of the observable universe.”
WJEY TIL Ronnie Gibbs, a 15 year old girl with a drug problem, was sentenced to (and is serving) life in prison without parole for having a miscarriage after trying to get clean
oBMg7 TIL about dazzle camouflage, used for naval ships in WWI. It consisted of "complex patterns of geometric shapes in contrasting colours, interrupting and intersecting each other." This would make it hard for German U-boats to accurately shoot torpedoes.
awpnJ TIL - Disney once sued three day care centers in Florida for unauthorized use of their characters (5 foot high likenesses on murals on the buildings) who had to remove them. Universal in turn let the centers use Scooby Doo, Flintstones & other of their Hanna-Barbera characters.
ADo0l TIL Bill gates purchased the Leonardo da Vinci's Codex for $30,802,500. Three years later he had its pages scanned into digital image files, some of which were later distributed as screen saver and wallpaper files on a CD-ROM as part of a Microsoft Plus! for Windows so everyone could enjoy them.