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TIL Scarlet Fever still exists and it's strep throat with a rash...

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ZodD TIL that a musical work was so disturbing that it almost caused a riot, with “yells for the music to stop, mixed with applause to hasten the end of the piece.” One performer recalled: “One woman … repeatedly banged her head on the front of the stage, wailing ‘Stop, stop, I confess.’”
j68Kj TIL when adjusted for inflation, 4 of the top 9 highest-grossing movies of all time domestically are Star Wars films: Star Wars (#1), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (#4), Return of the Jedi (#7), & Star Wars: Episode I - the Phantom Menace (#9).
LQgJd TIL a chicken fell off the stage and on top of a cellist during a performance of the opera Boris Godunov in the Sydney Opera House's Joan Sutherland Theatre in the 1980s, which used live chickens in the performance. A net was subsequently installed above the orchestra pit.
OvL1 TIL of Hajimi Fuji, who volunteered for the kamikaze but was refused acceptance because he had a wife and two young children. To honour his wish his wife drowned her two young girls and drowned herself. Hajimi then flew as a kamikaze pilot,meeting his death on the 28th May 1945.
x65A7 TIL that in the 63 years since Niger gained independence from France, it has only had one peaceful transfer of power (2021).