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XEyE TIL Stephen King’s lawyer bought and then crushed the van that severely injured King when it knocked him down. King later said he was disappointed he’d never had the opportunity to destroy it himself with a baseball bat and a pickaxe.
EwYP TIL Wham! donated all the royalties from “Last Christmas"—released December 1984—to Ethiopia famine aid.
QJX0p TIL- On 18th April 1930 the BBC's news announcer reported: "There is no news" and played piano music for the rest of the programme.
W7OA8 TIL that Arno Breker, Hitler's favorite sculptor, who was known for his bombastic style of representing the ideals of the Nazis, was offered a commission after the war by Stalin, but refused, saying "One dictatorship is sufficient for me." He continued to thrive until his death in 1991.
BrJZb TIL The “Feast of the Wine” was a festival in Ancient Greece celebrating the “Month of the New Wine," using the minerals gypsum & lime to reduce the acidity of the wine.