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TIL that when the Who singer Roger Daltrey was set to promote the SM-58 microphone for Shure, he slammed it on the ground during a speech to prove its durability and carried on speaking with the still-working microphone

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vPONK TIL actor Leslie Nielsen used to bring a fart machine to his interviews
4XK1w TIL The vast majority of the worlds party glitter is bought by a an unknown cooperation for completely unknown purposes. When a NYT investigated, she was completely stonewalled and was only told that she would never guess it and would not know it was glitter if she saw it in use.
woVeo TIL that the term 'making love' meant flirtation or verbal protestation of love and devotion since its inception in the 1590s up to the early 1900s
R5kgQ TIL: Paper Sons were the result of anti-immigration laws passed in the way 1900s to limit Chinese immigration into the US. Chinese people would fake birth certificates that showed they were children of people who had already immigrated (making them sons/daughters on paper).
6jP7 TIL for every person alive today, only 15 people have died through all of human history.