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TIL that the theme song of Dawson's Creek was supposed to be "Hand In My Pocket" by Alanis Morrisette but after the creator failed to obtain the licensing for the song, he went instead with "I Don't Want To Wait" by Paula Cole.

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78nGP TIL that despite publicly denouncing the film adaptation of his novel, I Spit on Your Graves, Boris Vian attended movie’s premiere in 1959. A few minutes into the screening, he stood up and began shouting out his dissatisfaction with it, during which he suddenly collapsed and died.
GAwN5 TIL: the CIA once got brutally humiliated by the Cuban Government and Fidel Castro when they publicly broadcasted the identity of every single American spy in their territory on every local TV and Newspaper, including recordings of encounters the CIA believed were done in maximum secrecy
VMQwp TIL about Henry Lincoln Johnson, a member of the Harlem Hellfighters known as the Black Death. During an ambush in Argonne Forest in 1918, he injured or killed 24 German soldiers, without a working gun. He was the first American soldier to win a Croix du Guerre, France's highest award for bravery.
NkQb TIL Pregnant actress Gene Tierney contracted German measles during a visit to The Hollywood Canteen, her child was born severely disabled. Some time later a woman asking for an autograph said she had broken quarantine to see Tierney at the event. Agatha Christie based a book on the story.
K0A6 TIL that the speculated inventor of Tiramisu “does not have the time or the energy” to prove it, and claims it is “just a desert”. He currently runs a small family restaurant in Little Italy, Baltimore. MD