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TIL in 1991, an Australian singer pretended to have been kidnapped in order to boost her flagging career. She’d been missing for two days when she was found tied up in a road, claiming that she had been abducted by a fan and assaulted. Two weeks later she admitted that she’d made it all up.

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kJJod TIL that Napster issued a cease and desist order to the band The Offspring to stop them selling bootleg merchandise imprinted with the Napster logo
VBpA8 TIL of the Groom of the Stool, a nobleman who helped Renaissance-era English kings go to the bathroom and clean themselves. They later helped set national fiscal poolicy.
0wE75 TIL After American fashion designer Rick Owens' launch of the “Geobaskets,” Nike claimed that its silhouette was similar to one of their previous silhouettes: Dunks. As a result, Nike took off the sneakers from the market, leaving only a finite number of pairs still left.
7mxx TIL: The Cuckoo Bumblebee has lost the ability to collect pollen and to rear their brood. Once a female has infiltrated a host colony, she will kill/subdue the queen of that colony and forcibly “enslave” the workers of that colony to feed her and her developing young.
R7bNj TIL in 2010 British goat milk farmer reportedly discovered his goats made more milk when Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas is You" was played on loop