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TIL that in 1973 the Who’s drummer Keith Moon passed out mid-show. The band continued without him for several songs before Townshend asked, "Can anyone play the drums? – I mean somebody good?" 19 year old Scot Halpin, who had bought scalped tickets came up and played the rest of the show.

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9wMJD TIL about "Project Habakkuk," a plan during World War II to create an aircraft carrier made of ice by the British. They even built a prototype in Canada.
KO4Wa TIL that barns are red because farmers made their own sealant using linseed oil and rust. The rust protects the wood from algae and fungal growth but also colors the mixture red.
REbl TIL The facial recognition algorithms in use by facebook outperforms those in use by the FBI
nba7 TIL that, in 2014, English YouTube star Zoella uploaded a picture to Instagram of a “random man & his dog” on the beach. The “random man” was Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.
69AZX TIL that the Stasi is widely considered to be the most effective intelligence agency during the Cold War. 1/63 East Germans were collaborators. Including part-time informers, they had an agent for every 6.5 people. Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal called them more oppressive than the Gestapo.