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TIL Elvis Presley allied himself with FBI director Edgar Hoover and encouraged him to have John Lennon thrown out of the US

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e00YD TIL During the 2014 Super Bowl, the Broncos mascot, Thunder, was going to run across the field after every touchdown. They performed no touchdowns*.
ZKE4 TIL that George Lucas trademarked the word “Droid” and Motorola had to pay him for every phone sold under this moniker.
XEx9k TIL the Pretenders song "My City Was Gone" is used as the Rush Limbaugh Show theme song. Despite her liberal politics, Chrissie Hynde approves of its use because her parents were big Limbaugh fans
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BgyVe TIL of the 155 passengers on the 2009 Hudson River plane crash, only 10 were found to have found or used their life vests correctly