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TIL Alice Cooper led the movement to restore the dilapitated Hollywood sign, in the 1970’s. He then fully paid for the third “O” himself, dedicating it to Groucho Marx.

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oRYDR TIL Halestorm started as a Christian rock band whose tours focused on encouraging teens to avoid sex and drugs
6EaW7 TIL that an annual supply of tap water for a person who drinks 8 glasses of water per day costs around $0.33 whereas the same quantity of bottled water costs over $200
J1dx8 TIL that since 1949 all Treasurers of the United States, whose signature is on all dollar bills (along with the Treasury Secretary’s), have been women
epd6L TIL Mick Fleetwood and John McVie of Fleetwood Mac play on Werewolves of London. Warren Zevon and his band wrote the song, but Jackson Browne and T Bone Burnett performed it before he did.
9YoZX TIL about the Diggers, a group of proto-Socialists in 17th Century England who would take over common land and start growing crops for the benefit of the people.