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TIL Cookie Monster's name is Sid!!

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ne8rB TIL while Freddie Mercury stated that "Killer Queen" was about a high-class girl, promoter Eric Hall claims that the song is actually about him.
ng4Y TIL in 1986, ‘60 Minutes’ ran a scathing exposé on the Audi 5000, alleging it could wildly accelerate on its own. However, their on-air demonstration used a rigged car to show falsified results. Gov’t tests later vindicated Audi but their sales had already plummeted. '60 Minutes’ never apologized.
MeL7A TIL that George Washington is the highest ranking officer in the US army. He was promoted to the rank of General of the Armies on January 19, 1976, and he has steadfastly held onto power, even though he's been dead for 220 years. This makes the US army the world's only necrocracy.
QNG5d TIL Graham Young, known as the Teacup Poisoner, was released from a mental institution despite informing a psychiatric nurse that he intended to kill one person for every year he had been incarcerated
nOR7 TIL that the parody national anthem or Kazakhstan from Borat was accidentally downloaded and played in its entirety for a Kazakh gold medalist during the 2012 Olympics