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TIL Frank Zappa performed at a Casino in Switzerland when a flare set off by an audience member started a fire that burned down the casino.The event is immortalized in Deep Purple’s song “Smoke on the Water”

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EJ6W TIL “Maple syrups” Mrs. Butterworth’s, Aunt Jemima and Log Cabin do NOT countain ANY Maple products. Flavour comes from corn syrup and caramel.
0wvV5 TIL in 2009 a Russian robber broke into a hair salon, was beaten by its black-belt owner and kept as a sex slave for three days while being fed only Viagra.
V4eG TIL a Soviet all-female aviation regiment nicknamed the “night witches” would fly thousands of feet up, cut their engines and drop almost to the ground to bomb German forces undetected.
OopVe TIL that the notion of a "white Christmas" was popularized by the writings of Charles Dickens, whose stories that depicted a snowy Christmas season were based on his childhood, which happened to be the coldest decade in England in over a century
9vdp TIL: The President of Uruguay, José Mujica, donates 90% of his monthly salary to charity.