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TIL "Desperado" was not a hit for the Eagles until Linda Ronstadt recorded it. According to an interview with Don Henley

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XEjXX TIL the term 'patient 0' is based on a misunderstanding. One of the earliest recorded HIV patients was named 'patient O', standing for 'patient OUT of California'. Readers and journalists then misinterpreted this letter as the numeral 0, leading to its wide usage today.
4kpB5 TIL John B. Stetson invented the cowboy hat after moving out West to treat his tuberculosis.
okeA TIL that from 1995-2001 one man cheated the McDonalds Monopoly game and walked away with $20 million.
n8Ab TIL Tom Hanks intentionally gained 50 pounds to film the first half of Cast Away. He then took a year off to lose the weight and grow out his hair prior to filming the second half. During the break, the director and most of the crew went off to film What Lies Beneath.
QJkPd TIL the term "cliffhanger" is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's novel "A Pair of Blue Eyes," serialized in Tinsley's Magazine in 1872-3, in which a protagonists is left literally hanging off a cliff.