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TIL the artist Patrick Nagel, who created the cover art for Duran Duran's Rio album, died of a heart attack after a 15-min. celebrity Aerobathon to raise money for the American Heart Association

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6Ey07 TIL that In 2007s ghost rider the custom chopper cage rides was based upon the Easy Rider “Captain America” chop used by Peter Fonda who plays the devil Mephistopheles
VB8Z TIL Pepsi sparked riots in the Philippines after it sponsored a million-peso contest and announced the wrong winning number, which resulted in 80,000 people thinking they’d won the jackpot. The backlash was so widespread that it united members of warring factions against Pepsi.
1d5D TIL the Golden Hamster’s name in Arabic, where they are originally found, roughly translates to “Mister Saddlebags”
7rBr7 TIL The band Foo Fighters was named after the term foo fighter which was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations.
GY19J TIL that in 1869, Republican President Ulysses S. Grant tried to annex the Dominican Republic to use it as a safe haven for blacks fleeing persecution. Although the D.R. agreed to the annexation treaty, it ultimately failed to pass the Senate.