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TIL the 1979 Daytona 500 ended in a fight on national TV

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oeOo TIL Axl Rose’s original concept for the Sweet Child o’ Mine music video was to depict a drug trafficker carrying her child into a foreign country. It would then be revealed the child was dead and full of heroin.
pYxnZ TIL Vicki Lawrence was actually in her 30s she played the role of Mama (Thelma Harper). The character Mama is in her late 70s during "Mama's Family". Vicki Lawrence did not turn 60 until 2009.
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