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TIL That during a concert in San Francisco in 1973, an audience member watching The Who played the drums for the band when Keith Moon passed out mid-show

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b6LLZ TIL Nigel Richards, New Zealand, won the French scrabble championship, despite not knowing how to speak French. He instead memorized the entire French dictionary. He still cannot speak French.
9EX6 TIL the US government spied on Martin Luther King Jr. and even sent a anonymous letter attempting to convince MLK Jr. to kill himself.
9YZKM TIL in 1992 George H W Bush vomited on the Prime Minister of Japan then fainted. This resulted in the invention of the phrase "Bushu-suru" meaning "To do the Bush thing" or vomit.
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6Ew8m Today I Learned that Roman doctors used to drink their patients urine in order to diagnose disease, such as diabetes.