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TIL: ‘Born in the USA’ was 1st CD Made in the US

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WmB4 TIL Steven Spielberg wanted to direct a James Bond film, but he was turned down by the franchise’s owners. When he told his friend George Lucas, Lucas said he had a film “just like James Bond but even better.” It was a story about an archaeologist named Indiana.
Y76Gv TIL that a Manchester teenager created several online personas to persuade his closest friend to attempt his murder. Making legal history in the UK by being the first individual charged with inciting their own murder.
R7Naa TIL while trying to find a cure for AIDs, the Mayo Clinic made glow in the dark cats.
0wdrM At least 400 science articles cite nonexistent ‘phantom’ study.
Yk6B TIL Alabama still has a segregation law in their constitution and voted not to repeal it as recently as November 2012.