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TIL Iggy Pop and David Bowie went to West Berlin to get clean

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b9W0 TIL that in the novel Slumdog Millionaire is based on, the hero’s real goal is to get close enough to the game show host to assassinate him
0pe1 TIL President Kennedy was the the last presidential candidate to win the presidency without carrying Ohio.
66JY TIL in 1969, Porsche developed a successor to the VW Beetle, the EA 266, which had a 1.6l 100hp mid-engine (strongest Beetle at the time: 54hp) and went up to 118mph. The VW board of directors was horrified - they wanted it to be sporty, but cheap and not a sports car - and it was never produced.
XEoJP TIL Charles S. Dutton went from "jail to Yale." While in solitary he picked up an anthology of black playwrights. He convinced the warden to start a drama group, later earning a Master's degree in acting from Yale. He has starred in films by David Fincher, Robert Altman, and Guillermo del Toro.
11O7 TIL of Pheasent Island, which is jointly owned by France and Spain, for six months alternatingly.