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TIL that Nickelback is the second most successful foreign band in the US ever behind The Beatles

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wGDP TIL members of the Rockabilly community dress themselves, drive cars, decorate their houses, and run their families like it’s the 1950s.
VBNl0 TIL in Rocky (1976), when the fight poster shows Rocky in the wrong color shorts, that was not intentional. The art department messed up, showing red with a white stripe instead of white with a red stripe. The budget was only around a million dollars, so they had Rocky point it out in the film.
yLdl TIL that Morgan Freeman is a beekeeper, and owns a 124 acre farm for the bees in Mississippi.
GAoDN TIL Richard Nixon’s daughter married Dwight Eisenhower’s grandson.
8aDeV TIL that more than 380,000 African American soldiers served in the Army during WWI. THE U.S. Army wasn’t comfortable with the idea of training black men for combat, so they were assigned to train under/fight along side the French