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TIL that Mel Brooks won his first Oscar as a narrator in a short animated cartoon depicting an elderly gentleman in a wrong movie theater watching an abstract movie, who struggles to understand what he's actually looking at

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Z8y0v TIL an endangered parrot in New Zealand was only mating with people's heads, so they made an "ejaculation helmet" for people to wear which would collect the bird's rare semen
Zp5dQ TIL that both Michael Jackson & Rihanna got sued for the use of the sample "Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa" in their songs "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin" & "Please Don't Stop the Music" respectively, a hook inspired by Cameroonian singer Manu Dibango in his 1972 song "Soul Makossa".
R5w79 TIL That the symbol ^ is called a "caret" not a "carrot", from the Latin meaning "it lacks"
a1KN TIL that in 2000, a meat department at a Walmart in Texas became the first store to unionize. Within two weeks Walmart eliminated all meat department positions and switched to pre-packaged meats.
1a6jV TIL that the creator of Bitcoin is still unknown. The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the computer programmer who invented the digital currency is a pseudonym and could represent a man, a woman, or even a group of people.