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TIL Garbage's song 'Fix Me Now' was originally called 'Chris Cornell': in a Yahoo! interview in 2017, one day after Chris' passing, singer Shirley Manson told she was once so 'obsessed' with Cornell that she nearly named the song after him.

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Yp77x TIL in 2016 an autistic man with a toy truck and his nurse were held at gunpoint while the nurse laid down on the ground trying to defuse the tensions. The police shot at the autistic man hitting the nurse. The head of the union said the cops were trying to save the nurse life by shooting at them.

wVpW TIL that the original British version of “Whose Line is it Anyway?” got cancelled after 136 episodes as ratings dropped due to people not liking Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie being in every episode.

rNYk1 TIL That John Lennon became an activist because Paul McCartney talked to Bertrand Russell about the vietnam war.

QJlpE TIL that the desk in the Oval Office is called the Resolute Desk, named after the ship it was built out of in 1880. The HMS Resolute was found empty and adrift in packice, then salvaged by the US and gifted back to the UK, which helped narrowly avoid a war. FDR would add the front to hide his polio.

ZpwDG TIL the U.S state of Rhode Island changed its name in 2020, and was the first state to ever do so