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TIL the Rolling Stones were criticized for high ticket prices on their 1969 US tour so they decided to hold a free concert. The festival was organized by the Grateful Dead and took place at the Altamont Speedway in 1969. It was a disaster, and signalled the end of the hippie movement.

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BgBNL TIL that in the Dani tribe of Papua, Indonesia, there's a unique tradition involving women. When a family member passes away, the women may cut off a segment of one of their fingers to express their grief and symbolize the pain of their loss. This ritual is intended to appease the spirits.
wLlKM TIL about Cargo cults a belief system based on the following of a more technologicallly advance society without understanding their culture or their technology. Most commonly associated with island people paying cult to people that stopped on their island.
oRpOR TIL "La Parada de Tettas" by Vengaboys literally means "the parade of boobs". As a kid ,we used to run around shouting these words in conservative Indian community.
b9KpQ TIL the 1847 NY Rural Cemetery Act authorizing nonprofit commercial graveyards on (then) rural land, and an 1852 law against new burials in Manhattan, have led to Queens containing over 5 million graves within its Cemetery Belt, such that the borough’s “dead population” now doubles its live one.
OgQY TIL Hitler had a bunker in the hills of Los Angeles built by American fascists.