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TIL that before he teamed up with Cheech, Tommy Chong played guitar for Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers, a Canadian soul group who had a minor hit in 1968 called "Does Your Mama Know About Me"

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D1ZXe TIL Macy's Department Store declined to be featured in the movie "Elf" because they didn't like the idea that there was a fake Santa working there and felt it would blow the illusion for kids.
pvaO TIL that JJ Thompson won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that electrons act as particles, while his son GP Thompson won the Nobel Prize for discovering that electrons act as waves.
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