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GYaKg TIL in 1919 Cleveland Indians pitcher Ray Caldwell was struck by lightning with one out remaining in a game, and after regaining consciousness, recorded the final out to win it.
86LK TIL the song ‘Louie Louie’ was investigated by the FBI for 31 months on suspicion that the lyrics were secretly obscene, but no lyrics were ever printed and it was dropped when they were deemed unintelligible. The drummer later admitted to yelling 'Fuck!’ at 0:54 after dropping his drumsticks.
p8wkO TIL that the FBI found the bodies of the 1964 Freedom Summer murders with the help of a hitman who, along with an agent, beat and kidnapped a KKK member. The Klansman had a gun barrel shoved down his throat as the hitman “started cutting his dick off with a razor” until the location was revealed.
RVE7 TIL: After 4 weeks of training, Zappos offers all new employees $2,000 to quit.
N7AXE TIL 60's social activist Abbie Hoffman and author of Fuck the System ,Revolution for the Hell of It, and Steal This Book , had an FBI file that was 13,262 pages long. or, about 11 times that of Tolstoy's War and Peace