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TIL Bruce Springsteen wrote a song for the Ramones after Joey Ramone asked him to. However, his manager convinced him to keep it, as songs Bruce gave to other artists kept becoming hits, while Bruce didn't have big hit singles yet. That song ended up being Hungry Heart, Bruce's first top 5 single.

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M0pW TIL fracking is exempt from sections of several U.S. laws, including the Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Air Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, and CERCLA (aka Superfund)
JYY51 TIL that most commercial bread contains an amino acid that mostly comes from the floors of hair salons in China
mxwJO TIL about the Canadian HMCS Haida, which became known as "The Fightingest Ship in the Navy" after sinking 14 German ships and submarines in just over a year during WW2. The Haida went on to take part in the Korean War, and now serves as a museum ship and national historic site in Canada.
WaGA TIL the oldest cave paintings in the world are in the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, France. Scientists originally thought they were 20,000 years old, but discovered they were 35,000 years old after further inspection
X06xQ TIL in 1971 South African ticket booking agent Percy Tucker founded "Computicket" which was the first electronic ticket-booking system in the world. He also pioneered in sale of tickets for Michael Jackson's concert as part of Dangerous World Tour in South Africa, but the tour was cancelled.