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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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D9vD TIL that Nutella uses 25% of the worlds hazelnuts.
VBwEp TIL that Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo has "slow lane" checkouts for customers who like to chat with the employees.
0w67N TIL There is no "Missing Link" in Human Evolution. The term "missing link" has fallen out of favor with biologists because it implies the evolutionary process is a linear phenomenon and that forms originate consecutively in a chain. Instead, the term Last Common Ancestor is preferred.
aJ1M TIL that the Bahá'í Faith is a religion that focuses on unity of all humankind and sees diversity in race and culture as something worthy of appreciation, that all religions believe in the same one God, but each divine prophet (Jesus, Buddha, Moses…) made a religion best suited to its people
7rXOr TIL that, in the Australian state of Queensland, the government places trivia questions periodically to keep drivers awake and aware.