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TIL- When the management at her Ravenswood apartment building barred Mae West’s African-American boxing champion boyfriend, William Jones from entering the premises, West solved the problem by buying the building and lifting the ban.

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0dAEj TIL Cal Polytechnic placed a commemorative plaque at the bathroom where “Weird Al” Yankovic recorded his breakthrough song “My Bologna” in 1979. It is humorously known as “Studio 229.”
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kOEee TIL that waving arms and screaming are not signs of drowning, but of aquatic distress. Actual drowning is often “quieter”; no call for help, no waving arms, just an upright body and head tilted back. Thus many people fail to recognize when a person is actually drowning.