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TIL that Rick James had a brief relationship with Linda Blair, the star of "The Exorcist." When she terminated a pregnancy without informing him, it deeply affected him inspiring him to record the song "Cold Blooded" about her

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4kojR TIL about British World War II general Bernard Montgomery first courted a woman in 1925, when he was in his late thirties. His approach to romance included "drawing diagrams in the sand of how he would use his tanks and infantry in a future war. This young woman refused his marriage proposal.
OyA6 TIL American test scores have always been historically low and they are actually higher today than in the 1960s
BdRK TIL the first McDonald drive-thru was opened near a military base to serve soldiers who weren’t permitted to get out of their cars while wearing fatigues.
v1o57 Today I Learned that there are ten honorary Harlem Globetrotters, including Nelson Mandela, Whoopi Goldberg, and Pope John Paul II
nWWYP TIL the character "Daddy" Warbucks, from the comic strip 'Annie', was briefly killed off by the writer Gray on the grounds that it was widely thought that capitalists were obsolete. Warbucks was resurrected, however, after FDR's death. Warbucks represented cartoonist Harold Gray's free-market views.