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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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