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TIL that for the film "Deliverance", Warner Bros. took the song "Feudin' Banjos" and renamed it "Dueling Banjos", to avoid giving the original composer credit. He sued and received "substantial royalties".

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awZWN TIL that during a 26-year affair with Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy did not divorce his wife. Publicists kept the affair secret outside of Hollywood. Even after he died in Hepburn's presence, they said Tracy had been alone. Out of respect for his family, Hepburn did not attend his funeral.
JYjVV TIL TV dinners have Thanksgiving to thank. In 1953, a Swanson worker misjudged the number of frozen turkeys it would sell that Thanksgiving by 26 TONS! Somebody then came up with a plan: Why not slice the meat and repackage with some trimmings on the side? Thus, the first TV dinner was born!
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