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TIL Baby Blue (Badfinger song, the one from Breaking Bad's last scene) was written about a lady called Dixie Armstrong, whom Pete Ham really liked.

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ZpP6a TIL Elton John's farewell tour is the second highest grossing tour in history, making $939M across 330 shows. Taylor Swift is number 1, with just over a billion dollars across 60 shows
9wk6X TIL that in 2010, A crocodile stashed in a duffel bag got loose on an airplane, frightened passengers and led to a crash that killed 20 people on board
4XON6 TIL that "Xmas" is not an attempt to remove "Christ" from "Christmas", but rather a shortening to the Greek letter chi, which is the first letter in the Greek spelling of Christ.
leyA TIL the Catholic Church has an official position on Jesus’ blood type. It’s AB.
69yZJ TIL At the 1932 DNC: after Roosevelt's favorite song "Anchors Aweigh" had been repeatedly played, someone reportedly shouted: "For God's sake, have them play something else", which caused the band to play “Happy Days are Here Again”. This cemented the song as an unofficial Democratic theme song.