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TIL A grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan was arrested after he was caught being blackballed by cross-dressing black male prostitute in the backseat of a car

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EApV TIL in 1974 a 20 year old man kidnapped himself in an attempt to get $5000 from his parents. He was found a couple hours later in a camper van behind his house.
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yQ8gX TIL in Finland the Black Sabbath song 'Paranoid' is regularly requested by concert goers as a joke much like the Lynyrd Skynyrd song 'Freebird' is in the United States. Regardless of the band or their musical style audiences will shout "Soittakaa 'Paranoid'!" ("Play 'Paranoid'!") during a concert
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BgBmk Til that only three objects have ever been recovered from inside the great pyramid