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TIL that Stewart Copeland, the drummer for The Police, composed the score for the Spyro The Dragon series.

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D1A8J TIL that there are blue bandaids that have metal in them so that they can be found by a metal detector if they fall off a worker in the food preparation industry.
pGg8 TIL Director, Robert Rodriguez was commissioned to video tape his high school’s football games but was promptly fired because he shot them “with a cinematic style, getting shots of parents’ reactions and the ball traveling through the air instead of shooting the whole play.”
BxDe TIL that the US seized a wire transfer between Denmark and Germany to pay for Cuban cigars, citing its own trade embargo with Cuba as justification
mxOp TIL the U.S. Department of Education prohibits schools from spending its funding on D.A.R.E. because the program is completely ineffective in reducing alcohol and drug use
JYdN1 TIL that Elizabeth Taylor wanted to be late for her own funeral, so the coffin arrived 15 minutes after the announced start time.