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TIL Del from The Goralliz wrote the hit song “Clint Eastwood” with help from the book “How to Write a Hit Song”. He bought the book with a coupon his mom gave him and he gave her the platinum plaque.

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Okl1 TIL when reporter Jerry Mitchell went to a screening of a movie about the murder of civil rights workers in the 60s, he wondered why the suspects weren’t tried for murder. He investigated the case and discovered evidence which helped convict one of the participants for murder in 2005.
v55D TIL: Sun Microsystems bought StarDivision, the company that owned StarOffice (the precursor to OpenOffice), for $59.5 million because it was cheaper than licensing Microsoft Office for their staff of 42,000.
yGyp TIL that the Average Height of European Males has Grown by 11cm in Just Over a Century
bRgN TIL The last words from the Challenger Space Shuttle before it exploded were “Uh oh.”
O6rY TIL Nirvana originally started out as a Creedence Clearwater Revival cover band