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TIL Kevin Bacon bribes DJ’s at weddings with cash so they won’t play Footloose

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xAdw TIL that Jefferson’s original Declaration of Independence contained a paragraph about the evils of slavery.
EYQ7 TIL that Chevy Chase avoided the draft by falsely convincing the draft board that he had homosexual tendencies.
nW9B7 TIL Theres only 6 full-time skywriters in the world
wLAWY TIL about Download Valley. A cluster of software companies in Israel, producing and delivering adware to be installed alongside downloads of other software.
rRW0w TIL that Abraham Lincoln was challenged to a duel in 1842. As the challenged party, he would have the right to select the weapons used. He accepted the challenge and chose broadswords "of the largest size" in order to take advantage of his superior reach.