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Today I learned that Tame Impala was accused of plagiarizing South American pop early 90s icon "Pablito Ruiz"

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XEnKk TIL Kotex, the first-ever brand of sanitary napkins for women, was first manufactured as bandages during WWI. Cellucotton, which was made of wood pulp, was five times as absorbent as cotton bandages but much less expensive. The company needed to find a use for the cellucotton after the war.
5Bdk TIL that sometimes a group of ants will get separated from their main foraging party and begin to follow each other in a continuously rotating circle. Eventually they all die of exhaustion. This phenomenon is called an “ant mill”.
b6L6Z TIL: That when cast as a child prostitute in the movie Taxi Driver; Jodie Foster had to undergo psychiatric assessments and was accompanied at all times by a social worker on set. Her older sister Connie acted as her stand-in when it came to sexually suggestive scenes.
loyRV TIL of the folk-punk band “This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb”. On three separate occasions, stickers for the band affixed to bicycles resulted in police evacuations and bomb squad responses.
Vmxp TIL that rival ice cream truck drivers in Glasgow in the 80s sold drugs from their trucks, shot at each other, and committed arson in the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars