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Today I learned that “The Real Slim Shady” was based on “Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song)” by Tom Green

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99dm TIL Glasgow Ice Cream Wars were turf wars in Scotland in 1980 between rival criminal Organisations selling drugs and stolen goods in ice cream vans.
e0L8L TIL Population density in Europe is just 34 people/sq km. At 426 people/sq km, England is the most overcrowded large nation in Europe.
yVxGe TIL that the thing everyone calls “JavaScript” can’t actually be called that way and everyone tiptoes around it by using abbreviations like JS, because Oracle holds a Trademark, even though it has nothing to do with open source JS, didn’t develop or maintain it or even has any product related to it.
4kyZR TIL Dick Van Dyke was rescued by porpoises after he fell asleep while surfing. He woke up out of sight of land and tried paddling back, suddenly the sea creatures emerged and saved his life by helping push him back to the shore
1avLD TIL when J. R. R. Tolkien sold the movie rights for Lord of the Rings, he forbade Disney from ever becoming involved ''as long as it was possible to veto anything from or influenced by the Disney studios for all whose works I have a heartfelt loathing''