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TIL Ohio is the only state to have an official rock song, and it’s “Hang on Sloopy”

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LkGJ0 TIL The 18th century “Old Grapevine Tavern” in New York City was a popular hangout of Union officers and Confederate spies. Lawyers, politicians, actors, and artists would meet there. It was the ideal place to spread rumors & gossip, leading to the popular phrase “heard it through the grapevine”.
4XxWa TIL - Serial killer Joel Rivkin once sued the state for his solitary confinement, stating it was unconstitutional. He sued for $50,000 for each of his 1,540 days in solitary confinement (totaling $77 million) and lost
awJv0 TIL Pork fat is ranked 8th among top 100 most nutritious foods, just below Swiss chard 7th, Pumpkin seeds 6th, and then Chia seeds 5th.
rRZRy TIL that during the Prague Uprising at the end of WWII, two escaped British POWs approached a garrison of Waffen-SS and claimed to represent a regiment of paratroopers and threatened to call in an airstrike on the building they occupied. The Germans surrendered.
L0eP TIL Steve Jobs confronted Bill Gates after he announced Windows’ GUI OS. “You’re stealing from us!” Bill replied "I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”