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TIL Arizona canceled MLK Day in the 90s and Public Enemy fought back

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gMWg4 TIL Ringo Starr featured in a Japanese apple juice commercial because his name sounded like 'Ringo Sutta' , meaning grated apple in Japanese.
XEarX TIL that during the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln's name did not appear on the ballot of 10 southern states, but he still won by a landslide.
EgkbW TIL that the two stars of Kickboxer (1989), Jean Claude Van Damme (Sloane) and Michael Qissi (Tong Po) were both uncredited extras for the outdoor dance scenes for the movie Breakin’ (1984).
Y78LP TIL musician Jay Ferguson not only wrote the theme song for "The Office" (US) but also wrote the popular 1970s yacht rock song "Thunder Island".
XED8j TIL in 1984, the creation of an atomic priesthood to generate a religious mythology involving genetically engineered cats that would glow in the presence of radioactive waste was proposed to warn future generations of the danger and location of radioactive waste in New Mexico.