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TIL: Aretha Franklin was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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4KLJ TIL that when Frank Morgan, the man that played the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz, was picking out a jacket to use for his role as the Wizard, he turned out one of the pockets of the jacket and discovered a label indicating that the coat had once belonged to Oz author L. Frank Baum.
M1WW TIL a disabled person sued Chipotle because he couldn’t see his burrito being made, and was “Denied the Chipotle Experience”. He won.
OoYW4 TIL that Vice President Johnson had a fake thermostat control in his state room on Air Force Two that was installed in an effort to stop his coming Into the cockpit and messing with the temperature controls.
kOOG1 TIL: A human head transplant is planned to happen in China in the next few months. The main method is freezing the head before re-attaching it to an entirely new body.
Eg4EP TIL of Annie Robinson, a stewardess who survived the sinking of The Titanic, but suffered from such strong PTSD, that she threw herself overboard to her death less than three years later on the SS Devonian, after she had a reaction to the sound of the ship's whistle.