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TIL Led Zeppelin was refused entry into Singapore because the band members had long hair

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E1dA7 TIL that Doritos were invented at Disneyland. A food salesman noticed Disney was throwing away their stale tortillas and told them to fry them instead. He loved the resulting chips so much he got Frito-Lay to distribute them nationally.
kJdvW TIL Richard Marx wrote song 'Right Here Waiting' for Barbra Steisand but she wouldn't sing that she would be 'right here waiting' for anyone so he recorded it himself, scoring a number 1 hit
ava0 TIL During the Prohibition Act, the government poisoned industrial alcohol in order to scare off bootleggers. As a result, around 10,000 people died until the Prohibition was repealed.
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WkXkY TIL that "Cracklin Rosie" is actually a bottle of wine. Neil Diamond got the idea for the song from an old folk story about an Indian tribe with more men than women. The guys who didn't have girls would spend time with the bottle.