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TIL The Navy contacted the Village People to use “In the Navy” in an advertising campaign for television and radio. They gave the rights to the song for free on the condition that the Navy help them shoot the music video. The Navy provided them with a warship, several aircraft, and plenty of seamen

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E8Ko TIL USA police wont pursue fugatives if they escape from thier state, its documented to have happened over 100,000 times
N7wWN TIL of Ahmed Shah Massoud, an Afghan guerrilla leader who warned the US of an imminent large-scale terrorist attack on their soil. He was assassinated by al-Qaeda two days before 9/11.
16QB8 TIL there is a soccer player with the surname Amaluzor
XRrD TIL the 2010 Global Tiger Initiative summit in Russia pledged $330 million donor dollars for tiger conservation. Four years later, no financial help ever reached the Ussuriskii Nature Preserve, home to some of the last remaining Siberian tigers.
PLaG TIL: Tom Kenny (SpongeBob’s voice) is married to the actress who plays the voice of Karen (Plankton’s computer wife)