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TIL Momus was sued by (sexually reassigned) Wendy Carlos for $22 million for Momus's song "Walter Carlos", which suggested that Wendy could timetravel back to marry her pre-surgery self, Walter. Momus's next album was crowdfunded sketches in the style of 'Walter Carlos', to pay the legal fees.

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QJQdp TIL about "The Whole Shabangs" potato chips, available almost exclusively from US Prison system commissaries. Ex-cons consider these chips to be the best chip out there, and a high-point of their incarceration. Many end up dismayed and disappointed at their lack of availability "on the outside".
QMNM TIL that banana trees aren’t actually trees, but giant herbs
YpY5d TIL in Svalbard, by law, you must carry a gun when traveling outside of the settlements because of the archipelago’s abundant polar bear population.
8dYV TIL Jackie Wilson always kissed the “ugliest” girl in the audience because “they’ll all think they can have me and keep coming back and buying my records.”
A1x TIL NASA has discovered a “waterworld” planet 40 light-years away that may contain exotic materials such as “hot ice” and “superfluid water”