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TIL The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde first started out creating a project called (Mike Hunt's) Dishonorable Discharge

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8e09X TIL the 22nd Amendment, in addition to limiting the president to two terms, also states that, if the president's successor serves for more than two years in their first term, they can only be re-elected once.
OoPZL TIL 400 MILLION whiteboard markers are thrown away by schools a year. To combat marker trash, Crayola pays for US schools to send back ANY type of marker for recycling.
N7MVb TIL Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, rewrote her novel word for word when she had dementia in her later years, unaware she had already written her most influential work
E1PWw TIL in the LOTR, Gimli was 139 years old when he joined the Fellowship. He also wanted to join his father and Thorin Oakenshield on their journey to reclaim The Lonely Mountain in The Hobbit, but was denied for being too young at age 62.
d8Y47 TIL A&W's 1/3lb burger failed in the USA because Americans thought they were getting a smaller burger compared to the McDonald's Quarter Pounder