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TIL the croissant did not originate from the Danish or the French, but from Austria

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MeNLA TIL Alice Cooper once threw a live chicken at the audience, thinking it would fly away, and the audience tore it to pieces. After newspapers claimed he had bitten off the chicken's head and drunk its blood on stage, Frank Zappa said "Well, whatever you do, don't tell anyone you didn't do it.".
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