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TIL about GhostTunes. It was Garth Brooks' answer to not being able to carve out a satisfactory deal with the streaming platforms to showcase his music. Lasted less than 3 years and was eventually sold to Amazon where Brooks' entire catalog is exclusively available now.

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8AQX TIL in 1993, during a Friar’s Club roast of Whoopie Goldberg, her then-boyfriend Ted Danson appeared in black-face and began telling racially charged jokes. Montel Williams stormed out of the event and then-Mayor Dinkins claimed offense. It was later revealed that Whoopie wrote the jokes.
xVaQ5 TIL that eyewitness misidentification is the greatest contributing factor to wrongful convictions proven by DNA testing, playing a role in more than 70% of convictions overturned through DNA testing nationwide.
xV90 TIL that President Harding served bootleg liquor to his guests in the White House during Prohibition, after he voted for it as a senator
epp65 TIL that the mating season of the wood pigeon depends upon whether it's an odd year or an even year!
M74M0 TIL that Nursing Activision-Blizzard employees kept getting their breast milk stolen