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TIL Huey Lewis sued Ray Parker Jr. for writing the Ghostbusters theme song, claiming he stole it from his hit, “I Want a New Drug”

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OoZrY TIL Brazil could not afford to send its athletes to Los Angeles for the 1932 Summer Olympics. So they sent coffee bags with them which the athletes had to sell along the way to fund their own travel.
pYwge TIL that the male satin bowerbird only gets its characteristic blue colour at about eight to nine years. Satin bowerbirds live to for about eight to nine years in the wild.
pYyo4 TIL forms of brain training, including music and chess, do little to improve cognitive abilities except for the specific trained skill and similar skills
dWjE TIL that the CIA regularly kidnapped people overseas and transferred them to other countries to “torture, detain and interrogate” them outside the law.
ANPlB TIL Sacheen Littlefeather, the "Native American" woman who accepted the 1973 Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando (for his performance in The Godfather) while he boycotted the ceremony to protest the treatment of Native Americans in Hollywood, was actually a "pretendian" posing as a Native American.