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TIL that Aretha Franklin insisted on being paid for gigs up front and in cash, and would often keep the cash on stage with her in her handbag

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jO9M TIL at the 1956 Olympics, an Australian student successfully impersonated an Olympic torchbearer, handing the mayor of Sydney a painted chair leg topped with a pair of burning underwear in front of a crowd of thousands.
lom4B TIL that the 80s kids show, "Kids Incorporated" is still the longest running show in the history of the Disney Channel at 9 seasons despite having slipped into obscurity. It has not been released on home media, streamed or seen on TV since 1996.
rZeo TIL that South Africa manufactured large quantities of MDMA and deployed it for crowd control during the apartheid era
dDL5d TIL that since 1935, A Christmas Carol has been remade and adapted over 60 times.
nWJKG TIL that 'double muscled' mice, having a deficiency of myostatin(a protein that inhibits muscle growth), are found to have excessive muscle growth but impaired force generation; i.e. they are more muscular, but not necessarily stronger