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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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X04oX TIL that "Dhoodh Peeti" was a type of female infanticide prevalent in few northwestern parts of India in which newborn girls were drowned in pails or pits of cow milk. The phrase is a euphemism which literally means "Feeding of milk"
am9J TIL that Democratic Senator Harry Reid of Nevada once choked out a man who offered him $12,000 to illegally approve his new casino games, while yelling “You son of a bitch, you tried to bribe me!”
MbMW TIL 300 million years ago in north america there was a poisonous millipede the size of a car, called The Arthropleura.
Ynkd TIL a high-school girl derived equations showing that in order to fold anything in half, it must be pi times longer than its thickness
x6jw7 Today I learned that apple can be used as a racial slur towards Native Americans.