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Today I learned that Jeffrey Jones (the Principal in Ferris Bueller) is an actor/convicted sex offender

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xVvQo TIL that Freddie Mercury of Queen held a party in New Orleans in 1978, which featured nude waiters and waitresses, a man biting heads off live chickens, naked models wrestling in a liver pit, and dwarves walking around with trays of cocaine strapped to their heads.
NDpP TIL that NASA has a radio station called Third Rock Radio which plays only alternative rock.
gWOX TIL in all Japanese schools they run an emergency drill where a police officer dressed as an assailant freely runs around campus and tries to attack students with a realistic-looking plastic knife, while the teachers coordinate a defense to subdue him.
a84xZ TIL that Police Squad, forerunner to The Naked Gun, was cancelled by ABC because casual audiences couldn't keep up with the rate of jokes, claiming "the viewer had to watch it in order to appreciate it", stated by TV Guide as being "the most stupid reason a network ever gave for ending a series"
xVA0b TIL: Police in the UK apologised for using sirens, whilst trying to determine if they went "woo-woo" or "nee-nah".