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TIL during the music festival Woodstock '94, it rained all weekend long and turned the grassy venue into mud. Green Day started a mud fight with the crowd during their set, which ended with fans charging the stage, and bassist Mike Dirnt getting a tooth knocked out.

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Brn6D TIL that summer in Japan is considered the season for ghost stories/spooky events and has the same eerie resonance as Halloween does for the U.S. The tradition comes from the Buddhist festival of the dead (Obon) which takes place in summer.
KOG6G TIL The American flag was designed by a high school student !
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