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TIL that Tom Waits always refused to give rights for his songs in ads and sucessfully sued many companies who hired impersonators to sing similar songs in order to bypass his consent.

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Ypo9r TIL Gerard Way the lead singer of My Chemical Romance wrote the comic series The Umbrella Academy
b9BB0 TIL Gillian Anderson's performance as Dana Scully in The X-Files sparked a phenomenon called the "Scully Effect" where the character's prominence inspired a measurable increase in the amount of women entering the scientific, medical, and law enforcement fields
p8Abb TIL the Chinese besieged Alexandria Eschate, on of the cities that Alexander the Great had founded during his campaign. The city was attacked by the order of the emperor Wu Han in 102 B.C. and its capture stabilized Chinese expansion in the West contributing to opening up the Silk Road later on.
4XBka TIL in 1980, Rebecca Heineman wins the 1st national video game tournament, making her the 1st champion and 1st female champion.
gMPZW TIL of the Klu Klux Clowns–A protest group that dressed as clowns to disrupt White Power political rallies with unicycles, stilts, red-noses and mealy chants of “White Flour”!