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TIL Roy Orbison's song "I Drove All Night" was first released on the Super Mario World-themed "White Knuckle Scorin'," a compilation licensed by Nintendo and released by MCA Records in 1991. Orbison recorded the song in 1987, it became a posthumous hit in 1992.

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R7Ga1 TIL of Jerimoth Hill, an 812 foot gentle slope, which was one of the hardest highpoints to reach in the US, because of an angry elderly man who would threaten those who entered his driveway which intersected the path to reach the summit
rNk8d TIL that Warren Beatty reprises his role of Dick Tracy for free with unwatchable gibberish every couple of years to stop anyone else doing it.
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EjMV TIL that Mark Wahlberg has committed two hate crimes. One in which he permanently blinded the victim.