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TIL that the main sample in Fatboy Slim's 'Gangster Trippin' was used without permission. It took 3 years in court for the original artist to get any royalties back

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GYOg7 TIL Dracula was translated into Icelandic in 1901. No-one noticed for 100 years that the writer essentially wrote a fanfic of the story instead of a direct translation. It features new characters, more eroticism, and changed some of Dracula's powers.
69m5J TIL that serial killer Luis Garavito (killer of 193-300+ children) planned to become a politician, pastor, and pediatric social worker upon his release from prison after the Colombian government reduced his sentencing to 22 years. He died in 2023 just months before he was to be released.
jNKQN TIL Bacteria in your gut help mold your brain as an infant altering brain development and neuroplasticity. The bacteria also influence brain activity and behavior in the human brain as an adult.
4ObN TIL that a man with debilitating allergies and asthma flew to Cameroon, walked around in feces to deliberately infect himself with hookworms. The hookworms cured him of his symptoms
epg65 TIL in March 1849, an enslaved man named Henry Brown shipped himself to freedom in a 3-foot by 2-foot crate from his master’s home in Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, earning himself the nickname “Box”