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TIL the Green Bay Packers are the only publicly owned, not-for-profit, major professional sports team in the United States

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J1WLj TIL about a Chinese TV show called “Interviews Before Execution”, which aired from 2006 to 2012, where journalist Ding Yu interviewed convicted murderers just hours before their death sentences, and the program regularly drew up to 40 million viewers in Henan Province
W084 TIL a city in Florida gave James Earl Jones an award for MLK Jr Day, but on the plaque, accidentally listed him as “James Earl Ray,” King’s assassin.
e0x6k TIL that River Phoenix was good friends with the former guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers John Frusciante and that they spent the last few days of River’s life together on a drug binge.
kOOlg TIL Elvis Presley and his entourage would rent out roller skating rinks to throw $15,000 worth of fireworks at each other while wearing "air force jump-suits plus gloves, helmets, and goggles."
ldr1 TIL that on this day in 1987, two Chicago tv stations were hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.