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TIL that when quirky theatrical producer David Merrick got bad reviews for his 1961 musical, he found 7 random denizens of New York with names identical to those of 7 top theatre critics. He asked the civilians to talk ecstatically of the musical, then published an ad with their praises and names.

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KOokw TIL in 2016 Michael J Fox joined Coldplay live on stage and performed Earth Angel and Johnny B Goode from Back To The a Future
neBWG TIL Ben Gibbard, from Death Cab for Cutie, is an ultra marathon runner, regularly running 50/100 mile races
oBW7o TIL the Soviets had their own spin on the Western genre of film called Osterns (Easterns). Instead of being set in the American frontier they were set in the Soviet union during the Russian Civil War
0lDL TIL 12 years old, Johnny Cash saw his own brother mortally wounded by a mill saw. He died a week later.
M7LRA TIL that city pairs Wilmington DE/NC and Charleston WV/SC are almost the same distance apart, ~472 miles.