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TIL Rick James and Neil Young were in a band together

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696l TIL that Dole used threats of lawsuits to suppress a documentary about its workers; the director made a movie about that experience. How large companies can inhibit your freedom of speech and the manipulation of journalists.
mxjko TIL the movie The Elephant Man is not an adaptation of the play of the same name, despite the fact that the play was a hit on Broadway at the time the film was made.
DevY TIL when Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “The Rite of Spring” premiered in 1913 Paris, the audience was so shocked that loud derisive laughter and jeers forced the performance to stop. Pandemonium ensued when people in the audience began fighting and throwing things at the orchestra.
gMXo4 TIL the Thanksgiving Turkey presented to the U.S. President each year was originally intended to be slaughtered for the White House Thanksgiving dinner-- It was George H.W. Bush that established the currently ongoing tradition of presenting the turkey with a Presidential Pardon, sparing its life.
b9jg9 TIL about 'Factory Schools' which is about how our education system builds most of us as product for some factory/org keeping us in dark about various aspects of human life.