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TIL Rockstar Games thought it was so important to include the song "Walk The Night" in GTA IV, that they hired a private investigator to look up the relatives of Delaney (who died in 2003) so they could find whoever holds the rights of the song now in order to make a licensing deal.

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Y6aZ TIL Apple deliberately deleted competitors’ music from iPods and iPhones from 2007 to 2009.
0d79v TIL Ted Williams and George Herbert Walker Bush met each other in combat training as naval aviators in World War II and kept a friendship after the war.
OwDL TIL that old-fashioned (1930s) bar tenders wore arm-bands to adjust the lengths of their sleeves. In those days, most men’s shirts came ready made with a single length extra long sleeve.
d8ea9 TIL: The baby thief Georgia Tann was allowed to operate a black market adoption agency in the US for nearly 30 years. She stole nearly 5000 kids from poor families and adopted them out to rich families. This went on until her death in 1950.
oRNrW TIL that in World War II, shortly after Pearl Harbor, Japan actually captured and held a couple of the westernmost Aleutian Islands in Alaska for about a year. Retaking them was a battle with more than 1000 casualties on either side.