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TIL Outgoing Presidents Receive a Bill For The First Family’s Groceries and Clothing During Their Term

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6ZJl TIL MTV’s “Clone High” cartoon was cancelled when people in India conducted a massive hunger strike after Googling a Maxim article depicting Gandhi, and coming across the cartoon, which featured Gandhi as a character.
1a4kD TIL Disney tried unsuccessfully to trademark "SEAL Team 6" the day after the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
PYDvn TIL before lending his song In Your Eyes to the film Say Anything, Peter Gabriel asked to see the movie. He was sent a copy, and Gabriel approved the use of his song, but said he was uneasy about the main character’s overdose at the end; the studio had mistakenly sent him the film Wired instead.
b6X4a TIL that the first instance of Panda Diplomacy was by Madame Chiang, who arranged for pandas to be sent to San Francisco as a dramatic way of saying thank you. The pandas received attention, but not as much as hoped, because on their way to the US, Pearl Harbor had been bombed.
grBMA TIL The Great Salt Lake was once almost the size of Lake Michigan