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TIL The 1970 Kent State Shootings directly led to the formation of the band DEVO, when co-founder Gerald Casale's friend Jeffery Miller was killed and a "devolution" joke between friends became serious.
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TIL Top Gear's international popularity was due largely to early episodes being shared illegally on the FinalGear forum when the show was only available in the UK. When the forum's founder passed away, Jeremy Clarkson posted a tweet acknowledging how important he had been to the show's success.
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TIL John Legend graduated from high school salutatorian of his class and at age 16. He was then accepted to Harvard but turned it down for the University of Pennsylvania where he would graduate. He is also one of only 15 people to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award.
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TIL at the 2:58 mark in Hey Jude, you can hear Paul McCartney say “fucking hell” after making a mistake on the piano. The band thought it was so funny that they decided to keep it in the song.
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TIL a New Jersey man bought a $5 bottle of orange juice from Shoprite; his wife said it was too expensive and sent him back to return it, because it was on sale for $2.50 elsewhere. He then decided to buy 2 lottery tickets with the cash refunded from the OJ; he won $315.3 million.