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TIL Elvis Presley performed outside the United States three times, all during the 1957 Canadian tour.

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lor75 TIL the Battleshitts scene in Harold and Kumar was authentic shit sounds. "Sound engineer Jeff Kushner looked for recordings of bowel movements, but couldn’t find the “richness” he wanted, so instead he hid in a truck stop bathroom with a boom mic to capture authentic bowel moments."
jxYR TIL the top 10 female billionares all inherited their money through marriage or family relation
lMVA TIL that Humble Oil, which would later become Exxon Mobil, advertised that it sold enough energy in a day to melt 7 million tons of glacier.
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