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TIL that Rod Stewart confessed in his autobiography that he plagiarized part of the beat from his major hit song “do ya think im sexy?” from a Brazilian singer named Jorge Ben, calling it “unconscious plagiarism”

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N7o96 TIL the first hard drive that could store 1 GB was made in 1980 by IBM and weighed the same as an average adult anaconda. It cost $40,000.
5YplB TIL that in 1945 six Americans, five of which were children, were killed in Oregon by a Japanese bomb that was delivered via balloon. They were the only citizens to die by enemy weapon on the American mainland during World War II.
Gerj TIL A Woman in Oregon started a wildfire to give some work to her bored firefighter friends. Eventually, the fire, named as the Sunnyside Turnoff wildfire, spread to about 80 square miles — 51,000 acres — costing nearly $8 million to fight and took two months to bring under complete control.
rNoLW TIL That International Organisation for Standards (ISO) has had "Technical Sub Committee" (TC 34/SC 14) specialising on coffee since 1980 producing standards on grain size, test methods, production, and how to describe the sensory experience of coffee.
X0RZD TIL the Burnham Plan for Chicago, a 1909 master plan designed by Daniel Burnham, would transform Chicago into a European styled city with diagonal roads, a vast outer park & lakefront park system, several new rail terminals, & a Civic Square. Only portions of the master plan were realized.