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TIL A man once faked his own death to get out of a Verizon Wireless contract.

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W7YMo TIL that "The Black Cauldron" was the first Disney animated film to receive a PG rating. It was a box-office bomb.
KYJaE TIL Abraham Lincoln actually liked the song “Dixie” despite its confederate association. After Richmond was captured he requested a band play it saying “Our adversaries over the way attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday that we fairly captured it.”
yGav TIL Chattanooga, Tennessee has broadband internet that is 200 times faster than the national average in the US.
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