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TIL that in 2008 Detroit police used SWAT tactics to raid a party at an art museum. Guns drawn, they forced everyone to the floor before searching every attendee and confiscating over 40 vehicles… all because the museum didn’t have the right alcohol permit.

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pYR58 TiL That Aphex Twin once played a set using sandpaper instead of vinyl - and a blender
kJLod TIL that on Labor Day weekend 1969, in Great Barrington, MA (and a few other Berkshire towns), over 220 + people claimed to have seen a UFO, and three people claimed to have been abducted! At one point, the town even created a monument, and the event was recognized by their historical society!
RD1 TIL Doctor Seuss’s first book took 27 publisher rejections before it finally found a taker, Chicken Soup for the Soul was passed on by over 100, A Time to Kill by 26, and George Orwell was told Animal Farm would never sell because “it is impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.”
x6X4B TIL that there are saws specifically made as musical instruments
R78La TIL Jim Henson lost the Hoggle puppet from "Labyrinth" after traveling back from the overseas movie set. The Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama discovered it inside a lost shipping container and now it is on display at their museum of found treasures.