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TIL Pizza Hut donates all of its mis-ordered food to the poor

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D1NKv TIL 'God Save The Queen' by The Sex Pistols was set to be Number 1 in the UK Top 40 chart on the weekend of The Queen's Jubilee in 1977. The BBC and UK Charts Company fixed the sales and banned the song so that Rod Stewart would be number 1, denying the Sex Pistols the top spot.
e0yBJ TIL that in 1988, to demonstrate that channeling was a bogus practice, magician James Randi recruited José Alvarez, who pretended to channel a 2,000 year old spirit named Carlos, traveling the world and living like a celebrity. Alvarez continued the charade for years after 60 Minutes exposed them.
LkDav TIL Granny Smith Apples originated by accident, when a lady dumped a crate of old rotten French crab apples in her garden and then later found an apple sapling growing there. The tree grew to produce green tart apples that had never grown before.
yQDYJ TIL the man credited with writing the song “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” had never been to a baseball game when he wrote it
XVyD TIL Michael Keaton refused 15,000,000 to play Batman Forever because Tim Burton was dropped as its director.