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TIL Neil Diamond-Barbra Streisand hit You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore started as theme song to 1977 TV soap opera spoof All That Glitters. The show was retooled by creator Norman Lear-women are in charge, men are the sex objects-and another song used but Diamond expanded and recorded the original

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YpZbd TIL that the sovereign Kingdom of Hawai'i was never annexed by the US by treaty; it was overthrown by the US military in 1893, and, after some shifting of power structure, has subsequently been illegally militarily occupied as a US territory, and eventually as a state after a 1959 referendum vote.
5YlZ9 TIL: The United States Air Force Pararescue (PJs) use the sound bite of "Leeroy Jenkins" from World of Warcraft to notify themselves of an upcoming medevac mission.
l7XvB TIL David Koresh and the Branch Davidians set their own fires in their Waco Texas compound as a self-fulfilling prophecy, killing their own followers and children.
GYNyG TIL Andy Dick gave Phil Hartman's wife cocaine at a Christmas party, causing her to relapse. Five months later, she killed Hartman in a cocaine-fueled rage.
Rlr8 TIL Oscar the Grouch is not Green. He is orange, and muck from a swamp made him green before Season 2 of Sesame Street