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TIL David Bowie and Dennis Hopper once smuggled cocaine into a psych ward for Iggy Pop while wearing spacesuits

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KWYG TIL Bank of America tried foreclosing a couple’s home who paid for their home fully in cash. When the bank refused to respond to the couple’s dispute, they hired a lawyer and got the foreclosure dismissed. They then sought damages & when the bank didn’t pay, the couple sued and foreclosed the bank
7rDnO TIL Martin Scorsese directed the music video/short film for Michael Jackson’s 1987 song “Bad”
0wvRM TIL About the Norwegian Lunderhund, a species of dog that recovered from near extinction after almost being wiped out by illness in 1963. Originally, there were only 6 left in the whole world. Thanks to a careful breeding scheme, there are now 1400 dogs.
QJGwE TIL actor Robert Pattinson dealt with an obsessed fan who had been camping outside his apartment by taking her out on a dinner date. "I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back."
moJR TIL the Patriot Party, a socialist party in the 1960s/70s, organized poor, rural whites and worked closely with the Black Panthers as a serious political force until being destroyed by the FBI as part of COINTELPRO