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TIL in 1980, CNN had a video to sign off with in case of nuclear war

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oRKbE TIL of Tom Barlow a baseball player who after getting injured in 1874 and was given morphine by a doctor, subsequently got addicted to the substance and lost his whole career to it.
mx6Yp TIL Billy Joel got into an argument with a younger man about what the worst era to be young in was. The younger man told Joel that at least he got to grow up in the 50s when "nothing happened." Flabbergasted, Joel began listing the events of the 50s, which later became "We Didn't Start the Fire"
dmkr TIL that whenever Kevin Bacon is at a party he gives the DJ $20 NOT to play ‘Footloose.’ “People expect me to start doing flips like a trained monkey. I try to avoid that.”
EWvw TIL Lamborghini provides two Gallardos to the Italian state police, which uses the cars for delivering organ transplants to patients.
WkOdo TIL In 1386 a pig was convicted of murder for “had indulged in the evil propensity of eating infants on the street” and was was sentenced to be maimed in the head and forelegs prior to hanging.