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TIL that The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, the 1980 movie about the Sex Pistols, has a club scene with a disco mash-up of their songs

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p84D8 TIL that 39.5 percent of Japanese adults slept less than six hours a night making naps in public a social norm even to the point that napping during work is often seen as a subtle sign of diligence: You must be working yourself to exhaustion.
GKV1 TIL that the Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-long plague of inexplicable dancing in Strasbourg, in which hundreds of people danced for about a month for no apparent reason. Several of them danced themselves to death.
dDeYd TIL about KC Paul, an Indian man who has spent almost 40 years trying to prove that the sun revolves around the earth
yQk7X TIL that in 1355, the town of Oxford and the students of Oxford University erupted in rioting for days because some students didn't like the beer they were served and threw a pint of beer at a tavern owner. The townsfolk eventually stormed the school where 63 students and 30 locals were killed.
Ggg7 TIL Saudi Arabia is to build a new city exclusively for women