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TIL The Power of Love, the first number-one hit in the US for Huey Lewis and the News, was written for the movie Back to the Future.

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ne449 TIL that in a 2011 survey, 60% of Jamaicans said they supported reversing the country’s independence and becoming a British territory again.
Brm4x TIL part of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was filmed in George Lucas’s pool. More specifically, when Luke goes to Dagobah and the Dragonsnake is seen.
R7awa TIL for almost 20 years an organization called the Blind Babies Foundation has supported a Beeper Egg Hunt for Blind Children to participate
7BQp TIL In the 60’s, the U.S. Department of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff wanted to kill innocent American citizens in order to frame Cuba, but JFK stopped it.
gB6W TIL Fred Waldo “The Great Impostor” pretended to be a surgeon in a Navy ship during the Korean War. When 16 severely wounded soldiers showed up, he speed-read the various surgeries he needed to perform, including major chest surgery. All soldiers survived.