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TIL that Nirvana was adamantly told not to play the song “Rape Me” at the 1992 MTV Music Awards. Nevertheless, at the start of the performance, Cobain started playing the chords to “Rape Me” as MTV producers watched in horror. He then switched back to “Lithium”, as scheduled.

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OoxOY TIL of the Atlanta Compromise (1895) Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic education and due process in law. Blacks would not focus their demands on equality, integration, or justice.
VB0GG TIL that in 1992, Zhang Shan was the first and only woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal in skeet shooting competing against men. At the next Olympic games, men and women had their own categories.
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VM1P8 TIL that in the 1970s, at the height of the Troubles, Stanley Kubrick was in Ireland shooting scenes featuring red-coated British soldiers. He got a threatening phone call telling him he had 24 hours to leave Ireland. He left in 12.