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The Japanese word for samizdat is doujinshi.
In 1602, the Japanese government prohibited the enslavement, buying, and selling of cats and set all the cats in the country free.
"Spats" is short for "spatterdashes".
The Beatles song "Maggie Mae" is a ripoff of a song by The Vipers Skiffle Group (although this song is itself a take on an English folk song)
The tune and some of the lyrics to the Bob Dylan song "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" are borrowed from an Appalachian folk song, "Who'll Buy Your Chickens When I'm Gone".

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