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TIL that the Grateful Dead's 1995 summer tour is commonly referred to as the "Tour of Doom." 3 concertgoers were struck by lightning in DC and ticketless fans in Indiana tore down a fence and stormed the venue prompting a huge police response.

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BYnd TIL The word ‘flaneur’ refers to a person that wonders around and observes society, a man who is not aimless in being but is not stressed of his life, he doesn’t worry about anything and is free from society’s pressures. He is a man that exists to observe.
R7PjQ TIL that in 1996, an American citizen swam across a Chinese river into North Korea on a drunken dare. He got caught, was held and imprisoned under suspicion of being a spy, but was eventually released back to the U.S. He committed suicide a few weeks later.
yQO4J TIL after India, the state of Texas now has the world's second-largest tiger population
d7DB TIL that the word “fascinate” comes from the Latin word “fascinus”, meaning “divine penis”.
d8Ner TIL about Sgt. William Carney, the first African American to win the Medal of Honor