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TIL Radiohead was successfully sued for plagiarism.

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4X7dJ TIL of the Burnden Park Disaster, a crowd crush at a football match in Bolton, England in 1946 in which 33 people were killed. 30 minutes after the crush, with the dead laying at the side of the pitch, the game restarted.
GADW1 TIL there is something called "Sazae-san syndrome" in Japan. Every Sunday, at 6:30pm, an animated show called Sazae-san airs, and when it ends many Japanese people are struck with feelings of melancholy because they are reminded the weekend is coming to an end.
8awOV TIL McDonalds invested in Chipotle in 1998, and by 2005 owned 90% of the restaurants.
VMva0 TIL that in India an estimated 1.2 million people have died of snake bites since 2000.
yQaXX TIL when Rafał Gan-Ganowicz, a Polish mercenary, was asked about how it felt to take a human life, he replied "I wouldn't know, I've only killed communists".