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TIL: david letterman co-hosted and mc'd "the starland vocal band tv show" in 1977, which ran for 1 season (6 episodes) only.

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ygjw TIL the saying “scot-free” doesn’t have anything to do with Scotland, but rather refers to a Middle English meaning of “scot” as a type of tax or fee, thus “not required to pay a scot (tax or fee)”
b95M9 TIL in 2007 artist Justine Cooper created a campaign around the fictional medicine 'Havidol' to treat the fake psychological disorder DSACDAD as a social satire on the tactics used by the drug industry to sell prescription drugs. It was so successful many people believed Havidol was real.
ZpAEQ TIL Teruo Nakamura, a Japanese solider in WWII, fled to Indonesia in 1944. There he survived alone in the jungle as the believed that the war continued. Later, a pilot accidentally found his hut in 1974 and shortly after, he became the last WWII soldier to surrender (30 years after the war ended).
LkKAv TIL Cleopatra was one of the wealthiest women of all time. Her net worth today would be around $95.8 billion USD
J1NGB TIL that in the 1930s a Church of England clergyman, known as "The Prostitutes' Padre", died after being mauled while acting out Daniel in the lion's den and accidentally stepping on the tail of a lion named Freddie.