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Martin and Yacoub wrote the song for TLC (who famously turned it down) because they were inspired by the group's single "Baby-Baby-Baby."

Six months later, while Tickle Me Taz was still in development, Tyco got the rights to create Sesame Street plush toys, and they pitched Tickle Me Elmo as a toy they could create if they had the rights. 

Kelly was reportedly first introduced to the bag by costume designer Edith Head, who styled her with Hermès accessories, including the bag, for the film To Catch A Thief. It's considered the original celebrity-named designer bag that paved the way for others like the Birkin, the Jackie, and the Diana.

The sighting over Mount Rainier — which happened a couple of weeks before the supposed Roswell crash — started a rash of alleged sightings across the US and was the most well-known UFO sighting of the 1940s.

Segall said that a week later, they met with Jobs and presented him with five names, saving iMac for last because he thought "it was the killer name." However, Jobs hated the name iMac, too. 

A week later, Segall presented Jobs with three more names and also brought up that he still liked iMac as a name. Jobs hated the three new names, but said about iMac, "I don’t hate it this week, but I don’t like it either, so now you’ve got two days." Segall said that the next day, a friend at Apple called him to tell him Jobs had used iMac on one of the models and that it was getting good reactions. The rest was history.  

Though it had been released in 2001, it truly wouldn't dominate the market until Apple launched the iTunes Music Store in 2003. 

As this GQ article points out, designers releasing cell phones were a thing in the '00s — most notably Kimora Lee Simmons’s Baby Phat phone with Motorola, and Versace's gold flip phone with Nokia.

Singin' In The Rain, lobbycard, Gene Kelly, 1952. (Photo by LMPC via Getty Images)

The first stars to put their handprints in front of the theater were Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks (seen above with Grauman standing behind them). 

YouTube's founders — Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim — thought that people would be really interested in video dating. They imagined people uploading videos of themselves giving bio information and what they were looking for. However, they couldn't get anyone to upload dating videos (even after putting up ads on Craigslist that they would pay women $20 to upload one), so they decided to open it to all types of videos.

Walt, by then, was also already interested in building Disney World in Florida.

(Original Caption) Chicago: Model Chris Payne displays Sony Corporation's new generation in recorded music, the Compact Digital Audio Disc and the Digital Compact Disc Player which are being shown to the trade at the Consumer Electronics Show through June 3. The tiny disc, (L) measures only 4.7 inches in diameter yet contains one hour of incredible high fidelity music on one side. The disc stores recorded music in the form of binary computer language which is "read" by a solid state laser beam and converted into music by an extremely sophisticated integrated circuit. The disc cannot be damaged by dust or fingerprints and never wears out since it is not touched by the pickup. The system will be marketed in the U.S. in the fall of 1982.

In case you were wondering why the Beatles gave up their music publishing rights, here's why: They were advised to put their music royalties into a public company (which they created in 1963 and was music publisher Northern Songs) because they were losing about 90% of their income to taxes — this way, they would make their earnings on capital gains rather than income and would be taxed at a lower rate. They then lost control of it when music publisher and Northern Songs co-founder Dick James and Charles Silver (the company's chairman), sold their shares of the company to ATV in 1969.

Messina left Twitter in 2023 over Elon Musk's handling of blue check verifications.