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PkNV TIL the original female winner of the 1980 Boston Marathon had her title stripped away when it was discovered that she didn’t complete the entire race. She had earlier competed in the New York marathon, and an investigation revealed that she took the subway for part of the course.
J17bV TIL that Chris Ballew, best known as the lead singer of The Presidents of the United States of America, released over twenty albums of children’s music under the pseudonym Caspar Babypants.
4Xoow TIL that Elijah Bond, the inventor of the Oujia board, also trademarked a talking board called the Nirvana talking board, which featured the word "Nirvana" inside a swastika. He sold it in his own company, called The Swastika Novelty Company (thankfully well before WWII).
oBLPY TIL Coldplay's 'Fix You' was written by Chris Martin for Gwyneth Paltrow after her father died.
p8B4b TIL about Agnes Denes who in 1982 planted a two-acre field of golden wheat over a landfill in lower Manhattan, two blocks from Wall Street and overlooking World Trade Center and Statue of Liberty