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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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vDRL TIL there is a language called Boontling spoken only in the small Northern California town of Boonville. It is a mixture of English, Scottish, Irish, Pomo Indian and Spanish.
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BYwW TIL a murder case in ancient China that involved the use of a sickle was solved by testing the whole village’s sickles to see which one attracted flies in the midday sun, the culprit was identified and justice was delivered.
nWmPd TIL the Choose Your Own Adventure books were invented by a single father and a lawyer named Edward Packard. He came up with the idea while telling bedtime stories to his kids
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