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TIL - When Alice Cooper played his “School’s Out” concert in 1972 at the Hollywood Bowl, he had a helicopter fly over and drop women’s panties on the crowd

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rRKje TIL Stan Lee, had a contract awarding him 10% of the net profits of anything based on his characters. The film Spider-Man (2002) made more than $800 million, but the producers claim that it did not make any profit as defined in Lee's contract
b9jDZ TIL Brazilian priest, Father Adelir Antonio de Carli, died after he floated out over the ocean suspended by hundreds of helium-filled party balloons and crashed into the ocean
JY871 TIL that in 4 billion years the Andromeda galaxy will take up much of the Earth’s night sky as it nears our galaxy for collision.
y6Ml TIL the word “blizzard” has a specific, technical definition. The National Weather Service defines a blizzard as a snowstorm with sustained 35 mph (56 kph) winds with visibility under ¼ mile (400m) lasting at least three hours.
nePl7 TIL that Sai, traditional eastern asian weapons, were actually more similar in usage to bludgeoning weapons than to daggers - The middle part of a Sai isn't even pointy!