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TIL Bing Crosby was refused a hotel room for wearing jeans so Levis made him a jean jacket - the Canadian Tuxedo was born

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WkNQL TIL about the only Beach Boy who surfed, Dennis Wilson, died by drowning.
rELd TIL - The Bohemian Club holds an annual party in the Bohemian Grove in which members surround a 40 foot Owl Shrine with the voice of Walter Cronkite for a secret ceremony. Every republican U.S. president since 1923 has been a member of club.
J11E4 TIL The German police once managed to identify and arrest a serial-burglar by identifying and matching the ear-prints he left on doors when listening if anyone was home before breaking in
XKr TIL that Prince is a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and occasionally knocks on people’s doors to discuss his faith.
OJw4 TIL the first commercially available handheld cellular phone was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, which hit the market in 1983 and weighed in at 2 pounds. It was priced at $3,995