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TIL: in 1976 Gerald Ford attempted to eat a wrapped tamal at a presidential campaign stop in San Antonio, which some people believe cost him the state of Texas. It is known as the Great Tamale Incident.

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QJvDE TIL The Smother Brother's Comedy Hour featured The Who in 1967. The performance ended with The Who destroying their instruments, aided by pyrotechnics. Keith Moon accidentally received 3x the normal explosives. The explosion sent cymbal shrapnel cut into Moon's arm and singed Townshend's hair.
KO7bG TIL - Queen Elizabeth II ordered the guest rooms of her palace to be stripped of valuables before the President of Romania visited in 1978 because she feared he and his wife would steal from her.
KYD1G TIL US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is the frontman for his own band called Ablinken, with songs such as “Lip Service” published on Spotify
jelM TIL in order to test the “shock value” of the corpse featured in “Psycho”, Hitchcock placed it inside Janet Leigh’s dressing room and listened to how loud she screamed when she found it.
78arP TIL Chicken Parmesan is not an Italian dish, it was invented in America by Italian immigrants and the first published recipe was in a NY newspaper in 1953. The dish became wildly popular in Australia where its served with salad and fries, although they hotly debate if the fries go under the chicken