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TIL: This first rejected demo for the Ghostbusters theme became the movie theme to Dragnet a few years later

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69yQW TIL that Venezuela was called Venezuela Saudita or Saudi Venezuela due to Venezuela's Oil Boom in the early 1970s, an Economic Miracle
VGw0 TIL For the last fifty years of her life, Mother Teresa had lost her faith. In private letters to friends and confessors she acknowledged repeatedly that she no longer felt the presence of God in her life at all, and once described her pretense at faith as “hypocrisy”.
4kRDJ TIL employees at the General Motor’s Fremont Assembly plant were considered excessively unruly in the 1980s and often left empty glass bottles inside the doors of unfinished cars to annoy the future owners
vPEx4 TIL that in 1992 the US Postal service held a vote over whether official stamp of Elvis Presley should depict Elvis as a young man or later in life. After over 1.2 million ballots, young Elvis won with 75% of the vote, and would become one of the most popular commemorative stamps of all time.
b9Ayp TIL of Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. - a United States Army Major, and a former warrant officer in the 123rd Aviation Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Division, who's been credited with ending one of the United States' greatest war crimes- the Mỹ Lai Massacre, in Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam