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TIL There has been no correlation between Punxsutawney Phil's predictions and what the country has seen weather-wise each year. For 120 plus years records have been kept, Phil's six-week prognostications have been correct only around 39 percent of the time

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QnWX TIL President Lyndon Johnson would play pranks on unsuspecting guests by driving his amphibious convertible into lakes screaming about the brakes being out
1orV TIL the title of the Italian film, Life is Beautiful, came from a Leon Trotsky quote. In exile in Mexico, knowing he was about to be killed by Joseph Stalin’s assassins, he saw his wife in the garden and wrote that, in spite of everything, “life is beautiful”.
9gN7 TIL that David Bowie released the album Space Oddity nine days before the Apollo moon-landing. It became the unofficial theme of that historic event.
n77r TIL in 1966–the same year as “Paint It Black,” “Yellow Submarine,” “Substitute,” “Wild Thing,” “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “The Sounds of Silence,” and “Hold On, I’m Comin’ ”–Billboard’s #1 song of the year was “The Ballad of the Green Berets.”
v4xK TIL before 1939 in Ireland, if a Guinness brewer wished to marry a Catholic, his resignation was requested.