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TIL Super Smash Bros. Slamfest '99 staged a real-life wrestling match with four costumed characters at MGM Grand Adventures in Las Vegas on April 24, 1999, before the event was streamed and briefly rebroadcast, despite no known surviving video footage.

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Z8Roa TIL in the 1880s, some coffins were equipped with shotguns and explosive devices (“Coffin Torpedos”) to deter grave robbers.
6E1Jl TIL Salvador Dali was attracted to Hitler "“I often dreamed of Hitler as a woman. His flesh, which I had imagined whiter than white, ravished me…”
PNdV TIL that the Hudson Bay region of Canada has been found to have less gravity than the rest of the Earth.
mx6No TIL Sailors from 1700-1980 used distillation of sea water to create safe drinking water and current navy fleets can desalinate more than a million of gallons of water a day and be used in times of drought on land.
OGEOR TIL over 30 years ago, Paul McCartney agreed to be in an episode of the Simpsons in part if the producers met his demand that Lisa Simpson becoming a vegetarian would be a permanent part of the series moving forward. They agreed and Lisa met Paul and Linda on Apu’s rooftop garden, in the shade.