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TIL that Nancy Reagan officially refused to help superstar actor and personal friend Rock Hudson receive AIDS treatment in France

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8agXP TIL Jason wasn’t planned to appear in the original Friday the 13th screenplay. Makeup designer Tom Savini had the idea to have Jason appear at the end because he had just seen Carrie and thought the movie needed a “chair jumper.”
16JXr TIL That in 1774 James Cook charted Sandy Island off the coast of New Caledonia. Despite its' inclusion in official maps and charts for over two centuries in 2012 an Australian survey vessel proved the island had never actually existed and may have been a 'pumice raft' floating in the area.
vP4mj TIL The plane crash in Breaking Bad mirrors the real-life 1986 Cerritos mid-air collision, and the junior air traffic controller involved was actually named Walter White.
kOZyB TIL Sam Cooke objected to playing the song "A Change is Gonna Come" in public, due to the track being so complex and because he felt the song sounded "like death", according to Bobby Womack. The song born from an arrest out of a whites-only hotel in Louisiana became a civil-rights icon, though.
D0NV TIL - The longest-running legal battle for a domain name is believed to be the fight for PETA.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued People Eating Tasty Animals to obtain the name - the case spanned from 1995 to 2001.