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TIL John Oliver has full creative freedom over Last Week Tonight, including free reign to criticize corporations, thanks to HBO’s ad-free subscription model

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jNGon TIL that blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan's first studio recordings were with a Texas high-school band called "A Cast of Thousands," which featured as its lead singer Stephen Tobolowsky, who later became a highly-recognizable character actor best known as "Ned Ryerson" in the film 'Groundhog Day'
kOnxd TIL that the parent company of coffee pod maker Keurig merged with Dr Pepper in 2018 and is now known as Keurig Dr Pepper.
ex1g TIL in the film Batman returns, Michelle Pfeiffer had to be vacum-sealed into her costume. She could only wear the costume for limited amounts of time to avoid passing out. In the costume, she could barely hear herself and had to be told when she was speaking too loudly by director Tim Burton.
VMVD TIL that gelatin is 99% animal bone and skin.
b60Z7 TIL U-570 was a WW2 German U-boat that achieved the unusual distinction of surrendering to an aircraft when a British Hudson Bomber struck her with depth charges in 1941. She was then commissioned into the Royal Navy as the HMS Graph until being decommissioned and wrecked off Scotland in 1944.