In the NFL’s early days, teams quickly came and went- but none so quickly as the Tonawanda Kardex Lumbermen (1921). They played only two games; the first a scoreless rain-interrupted tie with Syracuse. The second game was a 45 to 0 loss to the Rochester Jeffersons on Thanksgiving. Days later the Lumberman called it quits and became the shortest-lived NFL Franchise in history.

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Winston Churchill was an accomplished writer, penning 42 books, and receiving a Nobel Prize in Literature. He was so sought after, John D. Rockefeller asked Churchill to author his biography in the 1930’s. Churchill’s prices were too high (he asked for $250k as an advance) so Rockefeller went with his second choice and Churchill went on to become Prime Minister.

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A familiar story, always worth re-sharing.
During WWI, soldiers called an unofficial truce on Christmas Eve. Across the Western Front they set up food tables, exchanged small trinkets, played soccer, buried their dead, and held church services. It was act of shared humanity breaking through the brutalities of war. Today, British and German soldiers still play a soccer game every Christmas Eve to commemorate that night.

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Edward R. Murrow changed his name in college. His parents (Roscoe Conklin Murrow and Ethel F. Murrow) named their son Egbert Roscoe Murrow.
While attending Washington State University, he started going by the nickname “Ed” and officially changed his name during his sophomore year.

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In 1963, the lyrics "Louie Louie" became the focus of an FBI investigation for two years. Worried parents all across the US, were convinced they were hearing vulgar lyrics, and complained to the FBI.

Because fighting obscenity falls under the FBI's purview, they opened a case. Agents tried playing the record forward and backward, and at different speeds - but we’re unable to ever clearly make out all the words and the case was closed.

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