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TIL that Antonio Buehler was arrested and assaulted by the Austin PD for taking pictures of a police officer abusing a woman during a DUI arrest

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Wkn48 TIL the piano intro in Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" was composed by their roadie, Billy Powell. When he played it for them, he was promoted to band member on the spot.
OoZdY TIL about the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special - which only aired once - included a singing debut from Princess Leia, Chewie's wife Malla and family, Bea Arthur as a singing cantina bartender, and a loose plot with the crew trying to get home for Life Day
VMxd0 TIL that the Subway Sandwich rolls in the US are so sweet that Ireland ruled them too sugary to be considered bread.
5V799 TIL that in 1995, Eli Roth wrote & directed a student film called "Restaurant Dogs"- an homage to Quentin Tarantino's 1992 film Reservoir Dogs. 10 years later, Tarantino would serve as an executive producer on Roth’s second feature film, "Hostel".
WjGL TIL that in a 1888, Friedrich Engels wrote that Germany’s next war will be a world war, “eight to ten million soldiers will massacre one another” and “the devastations of the Thirty Years’ War” will be “compressed into three or four years, and spread over the whole Continent.”