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TIL that Elton John was the first artist from the west allowed to perform in Russia during the Cold War. While there, Elton was given a Russian 'interpreter', who he knew was a KGB spy. He seduced the spy and made love to him on the rooftop of the hotel he was staying in.

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woOeM TIL of the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals: an organization aimed at clothing “indecent” naked animals that lasted from 1959-1962 and had over 50,000 members. SINA ended when the founder was exposed as Alan Abel, notorious prankster, who wanted to parody the conservative moralist of the time
wLNWP TIL of the Anoa'i family of professional wrestlers which includes The Rock, Peter Maivia, Rosey & Jamal (Jalal AKA Ekmo; AKA Umaga), Rikishi, Yokozuna, Roman Reigns, The Usos, Nia Jax, Tamina Snuka and The Wild Samoans (Afa and Sika Anoaʻi).
N79eE TIL that the ancient Incas performed skillful brain surgery with a roughly 80% success rate. In comparison, 500+ years later, Civil War doctors only had a success rate of 50%
ANPBw TIL in 1970, Sly and the Family Stone cancelled 26 of their 80 concerts and numerous others started late. In January 1975, the band booked itself at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The music hall was only one-eighth occupied, and Stone had to scrape together money to return home.
0wJnN TIL that during the Apollo 15 mission, astronaut David Scott carried out a version of the classic Galileo's hypothesis by dropping a feather and a steel hammer at the same time on the surface of the moon. The objects took the same amount of time falling and there by proving the hypothesis.