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TIL in the 90's hit song Return To Innocence, the ethnic chant wasn't Native American, but rather it was from the Amis people of Taiwan. Also, the sample was used without permission or credit.

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m1ZpY TIL Monty Python reunion shows typically included an urn said to contain the ashes of Graham Chapman. During one such show in 1998, the urn was "accidentally" knocked over by Terry Gilliam, spilling the ashes on stage, which were then vacuumed up with a DustBuster.
v1nYK TIL In order to gather private data for use in an investigation, officers usually need a warrant. To bypass these rules, The Secret Service bought the location data they needed from a private company. Private companies are allowed to collect data from individuals and sell it to anybody they want
Og11 TIL after finding out his wife was having an affair, the future King George I of England beat and choked her, divorced her, and then had her imprisoned for the rest of her life. And had her lover murdered.
ZD4Y TIL that Snopes, wanting to stress that people shouldn’t believe everything they read, created a few entries with myths they made up and marked them “true”. Tv channel TLC ran an urban legends show that on one episode said something to be true. That something was one of the myths created by Snopes.
kM8B TIL that the PM of Pakistan could be toppled because a document allegedly proving his innocence of corruption was written in Calibri font. Calibri was not made publicly available to the public by Microsoft until a year after the alleged creation of the document.