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TIL one of Nirvana's most controversial performances was in 1993 at the Hollywood Rock Festival in São Paulo, after playing rough versions of their songs, they swapped instruments to play a set of badly rehearsed covers while they were booed by the audience and ended the show by demolishing the gear

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lwP7 TIL that in the UK, top lager companies remove and readd specific minerals to the water used in their brewing process - so that the taste of their beer is consistent. This is why locally brewed beers vary in taste depending on where you are in the country.
WkLx9 TIL, CBC had a contest to complete the phrase "as Canadian as ____" (by analogy with "as American as apple pie"). The winner: "as Canadian as possible, under the circumstances"
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nedPb TIL Bruce Lee could deliver a blow in 5/10 of a second from a distance of one meter (and 8/10 of a second from a meter and a half). It's 1/20 of the time it takes for a person to blink. At the time the standard cameras couldn't cope with the speed of Bruce's blows. His strikes were not visible.