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TIL In 1939 John and Judy Lomax travelled the Southern States of America recording folk, religious, ballads, hollers, corridos, dance tunes and work songs performed by regular people and even prisoners

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v1YXD TIL Art Bell set a Guinness World Record by staying on the air for 116 hours and 15 minutes. Using the money raised on air, Bell chartered a plane to fly to Vietnam and rescue 130 stranded Vietnamese orphans, who were eventually brought to the United States and adopted by American families.
oBOZR TIL of Operation Bloodstone, a CIA project to recruit former Nazis and collaborators to conduct "psychological warfare, subversion, sabotage, [...] assassination, target capture and rescue". Many hired agents were high ranking Nazis, some of which had committed crimes against humanity.
p8WXN TIL That Ulysses S. Grant's middle initial stood for nothing. It was a typo on a application to West Point.
dDyXK TIL Giorgio Moroder (Daft Punk collaborator) once released an album with Michael Holm titled Spinach, whose cover art featured a nude woman covered in the titular vegetable.
KOgY6 TIL when The Fresh Prince of Bel Air was being developed Alfonso Ribiero told Will Smith that "Whatever this character is called, that's what you're going to be called for the rest of your life .. so call your character Will Smith". He was right as the show is still what Will is most recognized for