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TIL David Bowie had the first version of My Way, later sung by Frank Sinatra.

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8eGB8 TIL ex-Dallas Cowboys’ coach Jimmy Johnson went to high school with Janis Joplin in Texas. Despite bullying her, his friends slept with her because she was “weird”
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4Xgeg TIL Georg Gärtner was the last German POW in America. He escaped from a camp in the U.S and took on a new identity. He was on the FBI’s most wanted list for 40 years, until he ‘surrendered’ on the Today Show. He was not charged as an illegal immigrant as he was brought to America against his will