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TIL after the band Alice Cooper bombed a show in the first ten minutes, a manager approached them and arranged an audition with Frank Zappa at his house at 7 o'clock. They misinterpreted this as 7 in the morning and woke him up, who was impressed nevertheless and signed them for a three album deal.

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lpar TIL that actor Brian Cox is diabetic and that in the film Super Troopers he was required to eat a prop that looked like a bar of soap but was in fact made of white chocolate. He spat it out and instead of waiting around for a sugar-free replacement, he ate a real bar of soap instead.
dDXJK TIL that commercial fax service was in operation 11 years before the invention of the telephone
6LnW TIL of “spite houses,” buildings constructed solely to irritate and spite neighbors.
woYBY TIL earthquake activity accounts for the majority of noise at the ocean's deepest point
4OrR TIL that the “Hokey Pokey” was originally called “Hokey Cokey” and possibly inspired by Canadian miners taking cocaine to cheer themselves up