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TIL Shel Silverstein wrote the song "A Boy Named Sue." Johnny Cash's version is a cover.

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4EGg TIL AT&T has a center in San Francisco (dubbed “Room 641A”) whose sole purpose is to monitor domestic and global internet traffic. There are potentially ten to twenty of these across the country.
dDv7B TIL Russell Crowe once hired Nick Cave to write a sequel to Gladiator. The script involved Maximus waking up in the afterlife and being tasked by the Gods to track down and defeat the Greek god of volcanoes. He also time travels to the present day and an emperor's giraffe gets struck by lightning.
x6pr1 TIL The G.I. Piano (a.k.a. Victory Vertical) was a piano made by Steinway for the US military. Meant to be used in all kinds of theaters, it was designed to be small enough to be carried on a ship or parachuted from a plane and to be able to cope with the humidity of the South Pacific.
lbdG TIL: A man saved a newborn baby from dumpster and found out that he was the father. The baby’s mother told the police she did not know she was pregnant until she gave birth to the child and allegedly put the living baby in a garbage bag and tossed him into the dumpster.
dj5B TIL the Adventures of Superman radio program incorporated KKK terms and secrets into a villain that Superman fought every week. Southern Klansmen suddenly began noticing their children dressing up as superman and fighting “klan-man,” which lead to a membership decline as a result.