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TIL On May 23, 1979, Tom Petty filed for bankruptcy to get out of his contract and it worked.

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P1xwV TIL in 1974 sales from McDonald's Shamrock Shake help fund the building the first Ronald McDonald House, which keeps families closer to their children needing hospital visits.
woG1W TIL some American airports now allow non-ticketed passagers to pass through security
78J9p TIL The largest swimming pool in the US was so large, lifeguards needed rowboats to patrol it. Fleishhaker Pool, built in San Francisco in 1924, measured 1,000 x 150 feet, contained 6.5 million gallons of water, and could hold 10,000 swimmers. In 1999 it was turned into parking for the zoo.
N7XJQ TIL of the "Pompeii Masturbator:" a man who appears to have been forever immortalised in the midst of some personal time.
d8yA8 TIL Saint Petersburg, Russia has been renamed several times. In 1914, it was renamed Petrograd to expunge the German words "Sankt" & "Burg". In 1924, it was renamed Leningrad. In 1991, the original name Saint Petersburg returned after a city-wide referendum.