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TIL The music industry is on deaths door in terms of sale

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grVP7 TIL that California’s 1967 Magic Mountain Music Festival was favourably reviewed for safety in press accounts, as fight or disturbances were not an issue, and at the end of the day, trash was placed in or next to the garbage cans provided. The immense crowd left Mount Tamalpais as they had found it.
epA7k TIL: there is a travel agency that will help you go to Somalia called Mogadishu Adventure. They promise to take you to Liido Beach and the Black Hawk Down site. They provide a full security detail and you get to stay at the airport hotel which has never been infiltrated by El-Shabaab.
W7rad TIL Benito Mussolini's son, Vittorio became a film critic and producer. He worked with several of Italy's best filmmakers including Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, and Michelangelo Antonioni.
bkwE TIL that there was a South Korean Gang that specialised in kidnapping and eating rich Hyundai customers.
W7yk4 TIL the "snake oil salesman" is attributed to Clark Stanley who gained national attention marketing snake oil at the 1893 World's Fair. In 1916 a USDA analysis concluded there was no snake oil in his concoction at all, and that it was 99% mineral oil. He was fined $20 ($543.69 in 2022).