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TIL baseball announcer Phil Rizzuto publicly maintained he was tricked by Meatloaf when he recorded "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" and did not know the song was about sex. But Meatloaf states Rizzuto did know the truth, but felt like he had to deny it after being confronted by his parish priest.

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4Xjnw TIL that when things didn't go well for film directors (for a variety of reasons) they could choose to "disown" the project and simply dump the credit onto a fictional director named "Alan Smithee". "Alan Smithee" currently has over two dozen projects attached to his name on IMDb.
kpvW TIL: When a British TV show ends, the power consumption from 1.75 million kettles being turned on requires extra power from emergency plants and from France to cope, power surges like this are unique to Britain.
lPo5 TIL New York Times Reporter William Seabrook, in the interests of research, obtained a chunk of human meat from the body of a healthy human killed in an accident, then cooked and ate it. He reported, “It was like good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef.
W7Md9 TIL lead vocalist, bassist, & founding member of the band Biohazard and actor Evan Seinfeld is a second cousin of comedian and actor Jerry Seinfeld. The two appeared together on an SNL skit crossing over Oz and Seinfeld.
69B8Z TIL that the first touchdown in the first Superbowl was made by Max McGee. A reduction in playing time due to injuries and age, he entered the Superbowl hungover as he did not expect to play in the game but when the starting receiver went down he was put in and scored a touchdown shortly after.