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TIL that the band Blues Traveler took their name from the demon from Ghostbusters, Gozer the Traveler, who manifested itself as the Stay Puff marshmallow man.

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Oo44g TIL: There is an underground coal mine on fire in Pennsylvania
xJ4k TIL the TV series Captain Planet was the first children’s show to deal with HIV-AIDS. The episode involved a villain brainwashed a community, making them think HIV could pass on just by casual contact, making the entire town hate a young man infected by HIV, voiced by Neil Patrick Harris.
PYPdJ TIL James Bond was originally half Scottish half Swiss. Also Flemming named him after an ornithologist as it was the "simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name".
7JLr TIL the first time Reddit was mentioned in the New York Times, it was described as “foolish collectivism” that “grinds away the Web’s edges and saps it of its humanity”. (June 10, 2006)
y0Yv TIL that in 1978 the United States Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. This allowed the formation of secret courts that can issue warrants and monitor people all over the world.