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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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p0BA TIL the first men on the moon had to use a pen to ignite the lunar module engines and leave the lunar surface because the switch had broken off
77g7 TIL that Canada had a multi-million dollar maple syrup heist 5 years ago, and have a maple syrup “cartel”
GAvG4 TIL that in 1994 the Government of Kiribati introduced a change in time zone for its eastern half that led to the International Date Line to move over 1,000 km eastwards to go around the country
e01X4 TIL that when Bill the Butcher from the film Gangs of New York says the date his father died fighting the British ("the 25th of July Anno Domani 1814"), he's referencing the Battle of Lundy's Lane
lrJB TIL Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys, was quoted saying “Once you’ve been labeled a genius, you have to continue it or your name becomes mud. I am a victim of the recording industry. I didn’t think I was a genius. I thought I had talent. But I didn’t think I was a genius.”