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TIL when Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “The Rite of Spring” premiered in 1913 Paris, the audience was so shocked that loud derisive laughter and jeers forced the performance to stop. Pandemonium ensued when people in the audience began fighting and throwing things at the orchestra.

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