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TIL that Prince used a photo of Dave Chappelle dressed as him and serving pancakes for one of his singles' cover

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08K1 TIL a man was cleared of murder charges after outtake footage shot for Curb Your Enthusiasm showed him attending a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball game some 20 miles from the crime scene at the time of the murder
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