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0dpdj TIL the song Leave Me Alone by Michael Jackson was a response to the media after a series of negative rumors about the singer, such as MJ sleeping in an oxygen chamber to slow his aging and buying the bones of the "Elephant Man". He was often referred to as "wacko jacko", a term he did not like.
l4P7 TIL that ‘The Guardian’ keeps a database of the number of US citizens killed by the police in the United States
0d1GR TIL that "DB Cooper" was not the actual alias used by the infamous hijacker. It was the one that was mistakingly reported in the press and quickly spread.
nej5G TIL that President Carter once told a joke during a speech to a Japanese audience which caused the audience to erupt in laughter. Impressed, he asked how the interpreter managed to get such a laugh. The interpreter admitted that he had said, “President Carter told a funny story. Everyone must laugh”
neP8o TIL: Real-life "coneheads" can be made by using Artificial Cranial Deformation.