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TIL Pink Floyd were refused payment after a show in 1966. The club owner claimed “Their performance wasn’t music”. They took him to court and lost

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mxZAR TIL 13 minutes were cut out of the movie The Land Before Time because it was considered too “frightening” for kids. The uncut version has never been released.
jkwE TIL a woman in Florida spent six years sitting on a couch. She died during surgery attempting to remove her after her skin grafted into the fabric.
QJx5E TIL that Mel Brooks produced the 1986 scifi horror The Fly, but left his name off the credits so people wouldn't expect a "Mel Brooks" movie.
dME TIL that 4 of the 12 people killed in Aurora were acting in true super hero fashion when they blocked their girlfriends from being killed by taking bullets for them and sacrificing their lives.
Yp1nr TIL that in June 1982 British Airways Flight 9 (callsign Speedbird 9) managed to land safely in Jakarta with no casualties, despite having accidentally flown into a volcanic ash cloud that shut down all four engines and sandblasted the windscreen