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TIL that when asked what his song “American Pie” meant, Don McLean said “It means I don’t ever have to work again if I don’t want to.”

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40eb TIL James Cameron originally did not want Titanic to have a theme song. Composer James Horner got Celine Dion to record the song ‘My Heart Will Go On’ in secret. Dion disliked the song and only one take was done, this demo version was eventually used and Dion has never recorded the song again.
6EJgl TIL Doo-wop is considered to be one of the precursors of Punk, with bands like The Ramones borrowing the 12-bar aab pattern, and some early bands adopting the call-and-response background vocals characteristic of Doo-wop.
d8rV9 TIL that in 2008, a Mexican state legislature implemented a surprise drug test for all state lawmakers coming to work to prove if they were clean. The lawmakers nearly trampled over each other trying to reach the door
GY8w7 TIL Britain prepared secret ‘Auxiliary Units’ tasked with guerrilla activities in case of a full scale invasion and would operate behind enemy lines to cause as much destruction as possible to German forces and had survival rates of just 12 days if activated and lived underground.
A1Qd TIL Lucille Ball’s production company, Desilu, produced the original Star Trek TV series, and Lucy herself approved the development of the Star Trek concept into a series