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TIL that Redbox was originally named "Tiktok Easyshops" when they were started as a McDonald's marketing project.

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9k0G TIL the Albuquerque Isotopes are a pro baseball team named after the Springfield Isotopes from the Simpsons. In one episode, Homer prevents the team from moving to ABQ with a hunger strike. Statues of Marge and Homer are at the stadium.
PYA5n TIL that all every Rolls Royce pinstripe is painted by a man who used to be an old English village sign painter. It's the last manufacturing step and can't afford mistakes as the paint instantly bonds with the car body and cannot be erased.
woEw7 TIL about Pole Sitting Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly was the most famous of the sitters.
v1jmL TIL John F Kennedy revoked Sammy Davis Jr's inauguration invite due to his planned marriage to white actress May Britt
MAea TIL that Sinclair Lewis wrote a satirical novel entitled ‘Main Street’ which criticized the close mindedness of a fictional small town in Minnesota. It was banned by the town of Alexandria (a small town in Minnesota), because they disagreed with it.