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TIL That at the height of Van Halen’s success with Diamond David Lee Roth, Roth had his penis insured with Loyd’s of London. Since others in the group were getting vital body parts insured, he insisted that ‘Little Elvis’ ought to be insured as well because he too would be used heavily on tour.

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5YA4k TIL that when Michael Jackson granted Weird Al Yankovic permission to do "Fat" (a parody of "Bad"), Jackson allowed him to use the same set built for his own "Badder" video from the Moonwalker film. Yankovic said that Jackson's support helped to gain approval from other artists he wanted to parody.
b9xn9 TIL that young girls in Cameroon would forcefully flatten their breasts, so they wouldn't be sexually harassed or sold off to marriage by their fathers, as men in Cameroon associate breast growth with sexual maturity and consent.
16lG4 TIL that Nike's slogan, Just Do It, actually originated from Joseph Smith, the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
6EnOZ TIL before women became the norm, the earliest telephone operators were teenage boys. These boys would frequently misbehave on the job, drinking, fighting, swearing, and playing practical jokes on the customers.
eOj5 TIL that self-injury works to reduce emotional pain because of a phenomenon called pain offset relief. “This may be because the physical pain relief that follows a self-injury event basically tricks the brain into perceiving relief of emotional pain too!”