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TIL air guitar is a competitive sport

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4LGo TIL when reviewing the 1948 movie “Isn’t it Romantic,” reviewer Leonard Maltin simply replied “No” which is the shortest review ever given to a motion picture
b90QQ TIL in 1970, a band manager who killed the manager of a club over $500, was cleared after his lawyer argued that working for his hard partying band had driven the manager mad. A band member even admitted on the stand that he had taken drugs less than an hour before coming to court.
xOV7 TIL to get Greeks to gain an interest in potatoes, a large shipment of potatoes was left on the docks of Nafplio under guard. The guards were ordered to turn a blind eye to theft and all of the potatoes were stolen. The plan succeeded.
wL6RE TIL any former President of the US not removed from office will have a lifetime of perks including pensions and Secret Service protection.
1amkO TIL that, in one apocryphal story of Voltaire's death at age 83, a Catholic priest counseled him to renounce Satan. He replied, "This is no time to make new enemies."