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TIL there is a Las Vegas, New Mexico AND that it was where most of the 1984 film Red Dawn was filmed

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va64 TIL that the nonprofit Goodwill pays its disabled workers pennies an hour while the CEO makes up to a quarter of a million dollars a year, all because of a 75 year old federal loophole.
ADlnn TIL the avant-garde band The Residents recorded an album of 40 one-minute songs, then purchased 40 one-minute advertising slots on San Francisco's most popular Top-40 radio station and had the station play each track over the course of three days
jNadX TIL that the song ‘The Most Wonderful Time of the Year’ mentioning “scary ghost stories” is from the pre-Christianity pagan belief that the winter solstice, being the longest night, was when the dead could most easily return.
0wAdL TIL A hitchhiking robot that relied on the kindness of strangers to travel the world was found with its head and arms ripped off, just two weeks into its first American tour.
X8bR TIL The writing staff of Futurama held 3 Ph.D.s, seven master’s degrees, and cumulatively had more than 50 years at Harvard University. Series writer Patric M. Verrone stated, “we were easily the most overeducated cartoon writers in history”.