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TIL In 1980, Punk Rock band Dead Kennedys was invited to play at an awards show to give the event "new wave credibility". Seconds into their set, they stopped to perform 'Pull My Strings', a song written specifically to take the piss out of the music execs in the room. They never played it again.

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xVaGD TIL in 1938 the Soviet's ordered the genocide of its Polish minority population and within one year over 100,000 Polish were executed
D1R8r Today I learned about Richard Overton, who in 1991 sued Anheuser-Busch (a liquor producer) for $10,000 because he wasn't getting more attractive women to like him after drinking beer, as he was shown in one of their ads.
69YBJ TIL that while both male and female mosquitos buzz, males are rarely heard by humans as they don't drink blood. Female mosquitos buzz at a higher frequency.
KOY54 TIL of Ray Holmes, an RAF Pilot who intentionally rammed a German Bomber with his Fighter to stop it bombing Buckingham Palace, bailed out, then went drinking.
jMQj TIL in 1957 Richie Ashburn, a member of the Philadelphia Phillies, hit a foul ball that struck spectator Alice Roth breaking her nose. When play resumed, Ashburn hit another foul ball striking her again as she was being taken off on a stretcher.