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TIL that the B-52's sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Florida circus for using "(Meet) The Flintstones" and "The Bedrock Twitch" in an act

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jE0a TIL the 3 numbers on an egg carton denote what day of the year it was packaged. 221 (out of 365) is August 9th!
W7xrX TIL the actor Woody Harrelson's father, Charles Harrelson, was a convicted hitman. In 1979 he assassinated a US federal judge John H Wood Jr. This was the first assassination of federal judge in the 20th century.
e0Pak TIL of Deborah Sampson (1760-1827), who fought in the Revolutionary War as Robert Shurtleff and was the only Revolutionary woman to earn a full military pension. Her identity was discovered a year and a half into her service when she fell ill during an epidemic and lost consciousness.
woGbP TIL In Cheongju, South Korea, a gang of thieves rented a hotel and spent a month digging a secret tunnel to gain access to a nearby oil pipeline in order to siphon it. They've managed to dug 10 meters deep and reached the pipeline, but a police raid caught them before they could steal any oil.
16kZX TIL the 2011 PlayStation Network outage, where hackers seized the personal information of 77m users, was partially due to Sony removing Linux support from the PlayStation 3.