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TIL The Foo Fighters promoted AIDS Denialism and Have Not Since Recanted

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wLp7E TIL the Dick's motto means "Yet my hope is unbroken"
rNl4W TIL the main key to the Bastille is kept in George Washington’s home, Mount Vernon. It was given to him by the Marquis de Lafayette in 1790, who wrote “It is a tribute which I owe as a son to my adoptive father, as an aide-de-camp to my general, as a missionary of liberty to its patriarch.”
Z8lGQ TIL Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, produced over 179 adult-humored commercials for Wilkins Coffee from 1957-1961. The commercials followed a formula of one muppet creatively harming the other.
R879 TIL that one unique danger of working in a tryworks (whaling industry furnace) was that a rotting pregnant whale could fill with gas and burst, “ejecting a fetus the size of a motor vehicle with sufficient force to kill a man”
m1XgE TIL Paul Reubens was the original voice actor for Roger Rabbit during the original screen tests for what would become "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"