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TIL : Air guitar itself had a seminal moment at the Woodstock music festival in 1969 when singer Joe Cocker mimicked the playing of the keyboard and guitar during his performance of "With a Little Help From My Friends".

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eN4J TIL of Alamjan Nematilaev who in 2003, aged 7, went to a hospital after movements were detected in his enlarged abdomen. An operation intended to remove a cyst uncovered the fetus of Alamjan’s identical twin brother, which had lived as a parasitic growth inside the boy throughout his entire life.
VgN0 TIL in 1994, Actor Jack Nicholson got out of his car and smashed the windshield of another Driver’s Mercedes with a golf club for “cutting him off”. Nicholson reportedly offered an apology and a $500K check that successfully ended any criminal prosecution for the road-rage incident.
OoEN1 TIL in 1826, a restaurant called Atwood & Bacon Oyster House opened in Boston in a building that was already more than 100 years old at the time. Today, it’s called Union Oyster House and is the oldest continuously operating restaurant in the US.
grBjD TIL under suspicion that he might join protests at the republican party convention in 1972, John Lennon was under heavy CIA surveillance. Lennon and his wife were aware they were under surveillance to some degree, but were still shocked once they were informed about the full extent of it
JYDwm TIL there is a zone in France that has been restricted for 100 years because of events that took place during World War I.