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TIL The pilot episode for Friends (known at the time as Friends Like Us) used REM's Shiny Happy People as its theme song.

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loon5 TIL that during the Vietnam war 30,000 American draft dodgers fled to Canada, the same number as Canadians that volunteered to fight
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