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R7Ae8 TIL Bob Dylan wrote a tribute song for John Lennon in 2012, inspired after going on a public bus tour of Lennon's childhood home years earlier; none of the other tourists apparently recognized who he was
BrEWb TIL When Teddy Roosevelt led the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill, the gun he carried was a .38 Colt revolver salvaged from the wreck of the USS Maine. The USS Maine exploded outside Havana in early 1898 and the pistol was given to him by his brother-in-law.
x6b50 TIL that the role of Ruby Rhod in The Fifth Element almost went to Prince rather than Chris Tucker.
oyX8 TIL in 1977 a plane crashed into Yosemite Park, containing almost 10,000 pounds of marijuana. Local rock climbers were first on the scene and amassed a fortune from the wreckage.
8anRb TIL that in 1983 a Mexican pilot crashed landed in a small town in Ireland and the whole town came together to build a temporary runway for him to take off again and continue his flight.