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TIL Cyndi Lauper best known for the song "Girls Just Want To Have Fun", was a big part of the success of (WWF at the time) WWE bringing them down the road to a multi-billion dollar origination.

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v1mwj TIL of 'Osterns' or 'Red Westerns.' A genre of film originating from Russia and the Eastern Bloc. Emulating and drawing from American Westerns.
8a0KG TIL detective show "Columbo", starring Peter Falk, aired its first episode in February 1968 and aired its last episode 35 years later in January 2003
yEVw TIL of Green Run - a secret Air Force experiment that released Hanford’s largest single dose of radioactive iodine-131. Scientists let 7,000-12,000 curies into the air, traveling as far as 200 miles. For scale, Three Mile Island released an estimated 15-24 curies, Chernobyl 35-49 million curies
WdoB TIL that the state of Washington could have been named Columbia, but was instead named Washington in order to avoid confusion with the District of Columbia
ZBAG TIL only 66 years passed between when the Wright Brothers made their famous flight and when Apollo 11 landed on the moon