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TIL that the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade purposely reroutes to try and avoid unauthorized CBS cameras

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e0eK4 TIL Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry sold his prized 1959 Les Paul during his divorce and lost track of it until he found Slash in a magazine holding the same guitar. For years Slash refused to sell it back until he finally gave it to Perry as a gift on his 50th birthday.
0w4Av TIL over $900 billion has been spent “attempting to bring Matt Damon back from distant places” in fiction
Z890Y TIL due to an unusual scoring rule anomoly, the 1994 Carribbean Cup soccer match between Grenada and Barbados resulted in both teams desperately trying to score own goals and protect the opposition nets.
KOjDa TIL Somali Pirates set up an exchange (like a stock market) where people could buy shares in pirate groups to finance their operations. A 22 year old 'investor' made $75,000 in 38 days after joining the 'company' - after getting a share of ransom money.
bR1E TIL that one man is responsible for saving ‘a billion lives’ by developing different strains of wheat crop, thereby averting predicted famines.