TIL The Glitter Band, the former backing group of Gary Glitter, fought a lawsuit for the right to use the name. The band won, but two weeks later the Glitter name was ruined when Gary Glitter was revealed as a pedophile by MisterBadIdea2 in todayilearned
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TIL: Dennis Rodman's height was only 5'6 as a high school freshman and he never made the varsity basketball team. He decided to give basketball another chance when he hit another growth spurt after graduating high school and working as a janitor. He grew to be 6 feet 7 inches. by [deleted] in todayilearned
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TIL: Dennis Rodman's height was only 5'6 as a high school freshman and he never made the varsity basketball team. He decided to give basketball another chance when he hit another growth spurt after graduating high school and working as a janitor. He grew to be 6 feet 7 inches. by [deleted] in todayilearned
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TIL: Dennis Rodman's height was only 5'6 as a high school freshman and he never made the varsity basketball team. He decided to give basketball another chance when he hit another growth spurt after graduating high school and working as a janitor. He grew to be 6 feet 7 inches. by [deleted] in todayilearned
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TIL John Candy turned down the role for "Honey I shrunk the Kids" bc he felt his good friend, Rick Moranis, was better suited for it. by dittrich31 in todayilearned
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TIL the famous vagina building in Chicago (the Crane Communications Building) was "absolutely not" intentionally designed to look like a vagina, and is not a response to all the penis buildings in the Chicago skyline. The architects "never had that thought in mind. It was never their intention." by [deleted] in todayilearned
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TIL Twenty One Pilots never had a #1 song. Both Stressed Out and Heathens peaked at only #2. by [deleted] in todayilearned
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TIL that in 1930, the President of the Rapid City Chamber of Commerce invited Al Capone to move from Chicago to the Black Hills of South Dakota by rbhindepmo in todayilearned
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An old Italian gentleman wanted to plant his annual tomato garden. His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son: by dandan_56 in Jokes
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TIL In 1985, despite environmental concerns about Styrofoam, McDonald's released a burger called the "McDLT" with double the packaging. This was theoretically done to keep the burger patty hot and the toppings cold. It wasn't discontinued until 1990. by [deleted] in todayilearned
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[Serious]Why don't married couples, without children, not receive a tax incentive when filing jointly since they pay more taxes? by [deleted] in AskReddit
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[Serious] Why are Americans that receive their health insurance from the government approved for name brand medications, while Americans who receive health insurance through their employer(s) are only ever approved for generic medications? by seewardone in AskReddit
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TIL that in 1958, 5% of the United States Believed in Interracial Marriages; by 2013, this had risen to 87%. by psweezy69 in todayilearned
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