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TIL Daryl Hall and John Oates (Hall & Oates) first met each other in a service elevator of a club, while fleeing from gunfire between two rival gangs.

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vPOBR TIL Fayetteville AR is named for Fayetteville TN, which is in turn named for Fayetteville NC
p8oNe TIL the team that was the basis for the movie Hoosiers (Indiana's Milan HS) beat Oscar Robertson's team on the way to winning the 1954 state title.
bN97 TIL that the word plagiarism comes from plagiarii. In the ancient Mediterranean world, plagiarii were pirates who kidnapped young children, among other misdeeds. When plagiarists claim someone else’s ideas as their own, they steal someone else’s brainchild.
mNMo TIL that Tim Horton, founder of…well, Tim Horton’s, died because of a car accident while he was drunk and on barbiturates and being chased by the police.
QNxMd TIL Bob Seger forgot to credit himself for the lyrics on “old time rock and roll” because he didn’t think anybody would like it and was disgusted to see it used in a Hardee’s commercial years later