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TIL Macho Man Randy Savage released a full length rap album in 2005, the title track Be a Man is a dis track towards Hulk Hogan

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E1JaX TIL When the Beijing 2008 Olympics Flame arrived in Pyongyang, a thousand full-dressed Koreans and Chinese overseas students greeted it at the airport. The Pyongyang leg of the torch relay started from the Tower of the Juche Idea and concluded at the Kim Il Sung Stadium
WkBM8 TIL: The word at the end of a road/street name actually means something
yQ78a TIL, authors will write themselves into their own stories for various purposes. Stephen King wrote himself into the Dark Tower series after a near-fatal accident. (Stephen King in the book also suffers the same accident)
OoAML TIL that the first jazz performance of "Someday My Prince Will Come" was by the Ghetto Swingers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. To avoid causing controversy, the band had to change the program name from "Music by Frank Churchill" to "Music from Disney's Snow White"
mxvQP TIL the creators of the original Scooby-Doo show never meant for Shaggy to be perceived as a stoner. They were annoyed by the marijuana references in the live-action movie.