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TIL Prince's 'The Most Beautiful Girl in the World' was the subject to one of music's longest running plagiarism cases. In '95 an Italian court ruled that Prince had plagiarized 'Takin' Me to Paradise' by two Italian song writers. After many appeals by both sides an agreement was reached in 2022.

BrBbx TIL of Agafia Lykova (75 yr, F) who was born in woods in "Old Believers" family, that has lieved in extreme isolation from the rest of society since 1930`s. She was discovered by chance by team of geologists only in 1978, while circling the area in a helicopter.
9wPAM TIL the band Green Day got its name from the phrase, "green day", which was slang in the Bay Area, where the band originated, for spending a day doing nothing but smoking marijuana. Armstrong once admitted in 2001 that he considered it to be "the worst band name in the world".
OGgVX In 1969, Alan Funt, the creator of the television prank show Candid Camera, was on board an airplane that got hijacked. His fellow passengers recognized him and refused to believe the hijacking was real. They were finally convinced after the hijackers forced the plane to land in Cuba.
4kyRo TIL when Pixar was working on Toy Story 2, someone accidentally ran a command that began deleting all the movie files. The day was saved because one employee had a backup copy at home since she worked remotely while caring for her newborn.
KkBw TIL Bill Gates bought Q-DOS for $50K, renamed it MS-DOS then sold it to IBM with a $3 per computer royalty