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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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wopL1 TIL a man missing nearly 30 years was found alive and living just 80 miles away from where he disappeared after he helped solve his own disappearance by telling a social worker he had a flashback and remembered his name. He had reportedly suffered major memory loss due to a head injury.
VJGG TIL Two Domino’s Pizza employees in North Carolina were arrested in 2009 after a video surfaced on the Internet that showed one of them putting cheese up his nose while preparing sandwiches, farting on salami slices, and blowing his nose on the food, as the second employee filmed.
oBw1r TIL that a ban on 190-proof grain alcohol most affected violin makers, who use the product to create varnishes used in making and restoring their instruments
6E6kQ TIL that the movie The Woman in Black(2012), starring Daniel Radcliffe, is actually a remake. The original film was released in 1989, and the same character was played by Adrian Rawlins, who played James Potter, Harry Potters father, in the Harry Potter films.
VBdgB TIL that United Flight 175, the 2nd plane to crash into the WTC on 9/11, rapidly descended at an “unheard of” 5,000 ft/min during its final 5 minutes. Flying at 590 mph, the aircraft also banked sharply just before impact, as it might’ve otherwise just clipped the South Tower or missed it entirely.