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TIL in 1955 jazz musician Wardell Gray - who played with Count Basie and Benny Goodman - was scheduled to play the opening night of the Moulin Rouge Hotel in Vegas, the first integrated hotel-casino in the city. Gray never played and his body was found in the desert, with his death still a mystery.

W7oRd Today I learned that in 1985 the US shot down a satellite in orbit with an F-15
a8Wa0 TIL Michael Buffer makes between $25,000 and $100,000 every time he says,”let’s get ready to rumble”
6JZW TIL Garfield was never supposed to be funny, Jim Davis made it solely to make money.
yQyN8 TIL the key difference between a ship and a boat is a ship can carry a boat, but a boat cannot carry a ship
l7MAN TIL Alexander the great named a city after his horse