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TIL in 1999 Red Rocks Amphitheatre won the "Best Small Music Venue" from the magazine "Pollstar" for the 11th time in a row. Following this, Pollstar changed the name of the award to the "Red Rocks Award" and permanently removed Red Rocks from the running.

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W7Q8d TIL Alfred Hitchcock refused to meet Steven Spielberg, who had looked up to him. According to Bruce Dern, this was because Hitchcock had agreed to be the voice of the Jaws ride at Universal Studios, and looking at Spielberg made him feel "like a whore."
0dG5j TIL 35% or 1/3 of the victim of domestic homicides is a male. 31% of women spouses accused of homicide are acquitted whereas only 6% of men spouses are acquitted
XANk TIL that while investigating the Mississippi Burning case, authorities found the murdered bodies of 9 other black men unrelated to the 3 Civil Rights workers they were there to find.
nWMKb TIL that the oldest tree in the world is over 4000 years old
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