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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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E1ryw TIL during the WWI Battle of Gallipoli, casualties were so horrific the Turks and Allied forces entered a ceasefire to bury the dead, during which the opposing armies traded cigarettes & souvenirs. After realizing their enemy weren't as evil as they thought, the Turks began to surrender en masse.
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d8QO7 TIL that the planet Neptune, which can only be seen by telescope, was mathematically predicted before it was directly observed for the first time on the night of September 23–24, 1846, at the Berlin Observatory, by astronomer Johann Gottfried.