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TIL that Ford Heights, IL was renamed in an attempt to persuade the nearby Ford plant to be within their corporate limits, but the plant was incorporated into an adjacent city (Chicago Heights) instead.

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pYNj4 TIL In 1969, John Lennon returned his MBE to the Queen “as a protest against Britain’s involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam, and against ‘Cold Turkey’ slipping down the charts”.
REA8 TIL that the US now has more Spanish speakers than Spain, second only to Mexico.
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Zp44Y TIL Orion Pictures felt the 1989 film UHF would be more successful if it was PG-rated. To do it, two scenes would have been removed: one where a man gets his thumb cut off with a table saw and one where poodles were thrown out a window. Weird Al refused and did not regret it. No poodles were harmed.
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