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TIL ‘This Land is Your Land’ by Woody Guthrie was written as a counter to 'God Bless America’. There was even socialist style verse that has been removed from the modern version

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rvjo TIL of a family falsely accused of abusing their son. Following british law, all their kids were forcibly put up for adoption. They are not allowed to see them, even after being proven innocent. When she got pregnant again, they had to move to Ireland so their child would not be taken away at birth.
0WB5 TIL : While filming Robocop (1987), producers, in lieu of paying a rental fee to owners of the Pittsburgh steel mill featured in the film, donated $10,000 to a local Pittsburgh food bank
wLnw6 TIL of the Texas City Disaster, the deadliest industrial accident in United States history. The explosion, caused by a ship full of ammonium nitrate catching fire, was so large that the ship's anchor serves as a memorial to the explosion where it landed... a mile and a half inland.
5Vlyk TIL that Richie Havens, after playing for almost 3 hours, made up the song "Freedom" on the spot at Woodstock. He was asked to go back on stage, after playing for almost 3 hours when the next performer had not shown up yet.
nm6Y TIL that Ben Cohen, co founder of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, cannot smell. The reason the ice cream is characteristically chunky is because in order to compensate for his lack of taste he would add big pieces of fruit to the ice cream to satisfy his need for texture in food.