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TIL During the 1965 Shea Stadium concert of the Beatles, the crowd were cheering so loud that none of the band members could hear each other play, and Ringo had to look at the bopping heads of his band mates to keep time.

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Xger TIL in 1987 a former airline worker shot his boss mid-flight, causing the stewardess to tell the pilot “we have a problem”. The pilot asked “what kind of problem?”, and at that moment the man shot the stewardess dead and announced “I’m the problem” before murdering the pilots and crashing the plane
GyO1 TIL Bald Eagles’ nests are enormous. One nest in Florida was found to be 6.1 m (20 ft) deep, 2.9 meters (9.5 ft) across, and to weigh 3 short tons (2.7 metric tons).
xyLb TIL Michael Jordan tipped a cocktail waitress in Vegas with a 5 dollar chip. Wayne Gretzky, who was also at the table, took it off her tray, gave it back to Michael, grabbed a 100 dollar chip from Michael’s stack and put it on her tray. Then he said, “That’s how we tip in Las Vegas, Michael.”
E1jZo TIL that the acclaimed writer Leo Tolstoy converted to Christianity and became a anarchist and a pacifist based on the teachings of Jesus. He was a major inspiration to Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
rdjo TIL in 1917 journalist H.L. Mencken published a hoax news article stating bathtubs were popularized in the US by Pres. Millard Fillmore after he had one installed in the White House. Thirty years later, even after he admitted it was false, it was still being reprinted as fact.