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TIL there is an actual Pound Town

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GYYyg TIL there is a small titanium vault inside of Mount Rushmore describing the origins of the monument and some history on the United States
awllN TIL when John Lennon performed "Woman Is the N****r of the World" on the Dick Cavett Show, Cavett was told to apologise for the song's content before the performance. The show received about 600 letters of complaint - but all criticized Cavett's apology, not the song's lyrics.
8eQEV TIL about Stephen King’s Dollar Babies, a program in which Stephen King sells the rights to some of his short stories for 1$ to film students to help their careers
pPvA TIL that the Church of Scientology tried to frame an author critical of them for terrorism
loLKA TIL singer Connie Francis was Italian-American, her real name was Concetta Franconero.