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TIL that CBS used to dub in bird songs to golf tournaments. They were caught by an avid bird watching who noticed the song of a bird that was not indigenous to the region of the tournament.

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BgWXy TIL Steven Hill as original leader in TV series Mission: Impossible said upfront he wouldn't work on the Jewish Sabbath and surprised producers by leaving the set to comply. After this and a non-Sabbath refusal he was not asked to return for season 2-and did not have another acting job for 10 years
p8lne TIL Australia had a micronation called Hutt River that once even issued its own stamps, driver's license and passports. It even had a foreign office in the US. It had about 30 citizens.
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PDDg TIL Frank Zappa put “musician” as his religion on his son Dweezil’s birth certificate.
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