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TIL: In 1982, 3 men in Allentown, PA sat on a billboard for 261 days to win a house. It was to promote the station, WSAN-AM’s format change from country music to nostalgic hits. Instead of promoting the station, the contest became a story that symbolized the economic struggles of the early 1980s.

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M76x7 TIL when DMX was facing 5 yrs in prison for tax evasion, his lawyer played his song "Slippin'" for the judge to illustrate how far he had come since his "horrific childhood" in the hope for leniency. Indeed, the judge was affected by the circumstances of DMX's upbringing & sentenced him to just a yr
90or TIL that Rodney Dangerfield’s signature line “I can’t get no respect” came to him after watching The Godfather in 1972. “All I heard was the word ‘respect’. You’ve got to give me respect, or 'Respect him.’ I thought to myself: It sounds like a funny image — a guy who gets no respect.”
wLP47 TIL - Industrialist Andrew Carnegie, called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society and dedicated the last 18 years of his life to large-scale philanthropy giving away 90 percent of his fortune, $350 million ($65 billion in 2019 dollars) to charities, foundations, and universities
VMLMp TIL On April Fools Day 1997, Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak and Jeopardy host Alex Trebek swapped shows for the day
RX7Q TIL That in 2005, Fall Out Boy Tried to Release a Song About the Trappings of Fame Titled “I’m David Ruffin and These are the Temptations” Until Their Lawyers Intervened. The Song was Renamed “Our Lawyers Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued”