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TIL Koala bears can get Chlamydia!

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b9a79 TIL Kim Kardashian sued Old Navy claiming the use of Canadian actress Melissa Molinaro violated her publicity rights by using a lookalike in an ad. Old Navy countered that the actress was famous in her own right and the case was settled out of court.
w8mM TIL The author of graphic novel Maus, which portrays mice as Jews and cats as Nazis, felt his ideas were being stolen and used in An American Tale so he released the book early, before the film to gain the upper hand.
7rWGx TIL if a contestant on The Great British Baking Show has a meltdown, hosts Sue and Mel will start swearing profusely on camera so the BBC can't use the footage
776p TIL that in 1978, Jefferson Starship had to cancel a German concert because Grace Slick was too drunk, causing the crowd to riot. They performed the next day, but she was so drunk that she groped female audience members and taunted the crowd for losing WWII. The following day, she quit the band.
Q8Xk TIL that the Lord of the Rings novels were written as if they were translated to English, and the actual common tongue of the books is called Westron.