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TIL that the song “Down Under” had a major lawsuit 3 decades after its release. Greg Ham, who played the flute riff, was accused of stealing the part from a 1935 children’s rhyme song. The band lost the case, and Ham was so devastated that his drug addiction worsened, and he eventually passed away.
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TIL “First Man” screenwriter Josh Singer interviewed Neil Armstrong’s wife Janet, who died two months before the release of the 2018 movie. Janet’s anger during Neil’s mission was real, as seen in her outburst to NASA men, “You’re just a bunch of boys making models out of balsa wood!”
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TIL of Lafayette, “The Hero of Two Worlds”, at 18 as a French Marquis he defied the King and sailed to America to fight in the Revolutionary War, he then left and served in the French Revolution. Once, when captured, Napoleon himself secured his release. He is buried under soil from Bunker Hill.
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TIL: Ant corpses release a chemical when they die, and other ants will dispose of the corpse. A scientist once recreated this chemical and put it on a live ant. Its ant friends kept bringing it to the graveyard no matter how much it struggled, cleaned itself, or tried to go back to work.
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TIL that the UK version of the movie “Every Day” is cut by 4s to remove a scene (cut marks shown on a girl’s arm) to secure a 12A certificate instead of a 18. Surprisingly, the Irish release is uncut at the same rating, despite the fact that Britain and Ireland form the same distribution region.
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