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TIL Paul McCartney didn’t allow the Weird Al Yankovic “Live and Let Die” parody entitled “Chicken Pot Pie” because he is a vegetarian. Yankovic, a vegetarian himself, said he respected the decision.

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e95E TIL that the bad spelling in email scams is intentional and there to weed out the more educated recipients.
njgo TIL There is a 5000 year old, still undeciphered, language with over 1200 symbols.
KYQv6 TIL that Indiana cardiologist Edward Harlamert broke the Guinness World Record for stents (34) by implanting at least 41 into his patient's coronary arteries, for a total of 48 stents in the man's chest. (Harlamert is now named in a malpractice complaint for stents by said patient and others.)
neGeG TIL A soviet defector predicted the current state of America 40 years ago (cultural decline, marxism, socialism) It was all carefully planned. "Our goal was to demoralize people so completely that they would deny fact, of course these people would be purged once the socialist goal was accomplished"
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