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TIL Paramount made a PG version of Saturday Night Fever

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xQ50 TIL that enough Purple Hearts were manufactured during WWII in anticipation of massive casualties encountered during the proposed invasion of Japan, that there still is a surplus of over 100,000 today
LXkm TIL…Ray Krok asked a group of MBA students what business was McDonald’s in. Their answer…Hamburgers. His Answer…Real Estate. Today McDonald owns some of the most valuable real estate in the world.
Ydkx TIL in 2013 a 65-year-old Seattle woman set out to fast for 100 days in order to prove that humans can sustain themselves solely on air, water, and light. She ended her experiment after 47 days.
WkmrB TIL Elvis Presley was drafted into the U.S. Army. At the peak of his career, he received his draft notice for a two-year stint in the army. Fans sent tens of thousands of letters to the army asking for him to be spared, but Elvis refused to decline. He was sworn as an army private on March 24, 1958.
5YvR8 TIL about Supreme Court Judge Joseph Force Crater, who became the "missingest man in New York," when he disappeared on the streets of Manhattan in 1930. On the day he destroyed several documents, shifted portfolios to his 5th Ave apartment and withdrew $5000. He was declared legally dead in 1939.