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TIL on New Year’s Day 1959, Johnny Cash performed a show at San Quentin Prison in front of 5,000 inmates, including 21 year old prisoner Merle Haggard

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P1YEL TIL in 1993, college basketball coach Bob Knight invented a fictitious player named Ivan Renko to expose disreputable basketball recruiting experts. Sure enough, the "experts" began listing Renko as a prospect and some even claimed to have footage of the nonexistent player.
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