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TIL that in 1974, Fleetwood Mac’s manager Clifford Davis assembled an entirely seperate group of musicians to take the mantle and name of the band after the original members declined to go on tour. The new band would go on tour, but audience members noticed the imposters, and refunds were requested.

by whatilearned January 19, 2022, 4:17 pm

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TIL the West Virginia town of Vulcan couldn’t get any funds to repair a failing bridge during the Cold War so they wrote to the USSR and requested aid. Once someone from the Soviet Union came out to survey, the State government then passed legislation to have funds to repair the bridge.

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 6:47 pm

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TIL F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda, was involved in an affair & requested a divorce. Zelda later discovered that Fitzgerald had an affair with a prostitute & threw herself down a flight of stairs. Fitzgerald later placed her in a hospital while he had an affair with columnist, Sheilah Graham.

by whatilearned January 13, 2022, 2:21 pm

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TIL in 2018, a Dutch man requested to change his legal age from 69 to 49, citing he wanted to ‘improve’ his chances on Tinder. The court denied his request due to there being no legal basis.

by whatilearned November 26, 2021, 1:57 pm

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TIL that in 2011, Lawrence Brewer, an inmate on death row, requested a last meal that included a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a meat-lover’s pizza, a pound of barbecue, and two steaks. When it arrived, he said “he wasn’t hungry” — prompting officials to abolish last meals for death row inmates.

by whatilearned November 9, 2021, 7:08 pm

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TIL Robert De Niro requested a live cartridge in the revolver for the scene in The Deer Hunter in which he subjects John Cazale’s character to an impromptu game of Russian roulette. Cazale obsessively rechecked the gun before each take to make sure that the live round wasn’t next in the chamber.

by whatilearned November 4, 2021, 2:23 am

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Individuals who requested a pencil each and every day in school. How is life going for you?

by QuestionGuy October 17, 2021, 1:45 pm

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TIL: A Filipino doctor who helped discover Erythromycin requested for $500 million in royalties to build a foundation for more accessible health services but was rejected and died without a single centavo.

by whatilearned October 11, 2021, 5:11 am

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TIL trial by combat is a judicially sanctioned duel used to settle legal disputes. In 2002 a Welshman requested trial by combat with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency over a penalty dispute. His request was declined.

by whatilearned October 7, 2021, 5:02 pm

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TIL Gabriel García Márquez refused to use adverbs ending in -mente in his [Spanish] book “Love in the Time of Cholera”, so he requested that his English translator Edith Grossman omit any use of adverbs enging in -ly.

by whatilearned September 27, 2021, 7:41 am

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Let’s say I’ve been selectively breeding Raccoons for intelligence on a Ranch in Wyoming for decades. They have now requested joining society. Who would I talk to about this? And how well do you think this would go?

by CopyPastaArchive August 17, 2021, 6:16 pm

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TIL that when Iron Maiden requested permission to name a song “Dune”, the author’s agents wrote to them that: “Frank Herbert doesn’t like rock bands, particularly heavy rock bands, and especially bands like Iron Maiden”

by whatilearned July 20, 2021, 9:04 pm

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