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TIL Clint Eastwood had two country music hits in the '80s, one of which was called "Make My Day"

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RR7a TIL that, despite White Castle being founded in Wichita, Kansas, there are no White Castles in the entire state of Kansas.
Yb8d TIL that Exxon’s punitive damages for the Exxon Valdex oil spill were reduced from $5 billion to $507.5 million
pY6N4 TIL the Hindenburg airship had a smoking lounge with one electric lighter
aWeZ TIL in 1993 James Scott from Missouri purposely damaged a levee on the Mississippi river to delay his wife coming home from work so he could party. Instead the river flooded 14,000 acres. He was later arrested and convicted of causing a catastrophe and sentenced to life in prison.
W7xk4 TIL of the Church War of Jonesboro, a bloody feud in early 1930s Jonesboro, Arkansas between followers of fundamentalist evangelist Joe Jeffers and Reverend Dow H. Heard, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro. Things got out of hand so bad, the Arkansas National Guard had to be called in.