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TIL Jimmy Webb, who wrote "MacArthur Park" and "Wichita Lineman", is the only artist ever to receive Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration.

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4ajb TIL There was a large swastika made of larch trees in Germany that went unnoticed for 55 years
7j67 TIL that a house remix of the theme song from “The Price is Right” reached #1 on the Billboard dance charts in 2001.
Xbbk TIL Banana Boat had a class action lawsuit filed against them. A lab tested their SPF 50 at only SPF 12.69, as well as Consumer Reports stating “28 out of 60 lotion bottles contain less SPF protection than they claimed on the labels”
A1Zo TIL in 1981, the Brazilian dictatorship planned an attack to an event attended by 20k people. The 2 soldiers that carried the attack made a mistake and ended up blowing the bomb on themselves (1 dead, 1 injured). The attack was planned to convince the country that left-wing guerrilas were a threat.
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