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TIL the Amphitheatre of Pompeji, the first one the Romans built out of stone in the 1st cent. BCE, still offers valuable and relevant lessons to crowd control specialists in the creation of modern venues

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1ar9O Til about the Tuskegee syphilis experiment conducted on 600 African American men by the U. S. public health service from 1932 to 1972 with the aim of observing the natural history of untreated syphilis
yQbQM TIL on October 2, 1978, Tim Allen was arrested in the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport for possession of over 650 grams (1.43 lb) of cocaine. He pleaded guilty to felony drug trafficking charges and provided the names of other dealers in exchange for a sentence of three to seven years.
VBwR4 TIL Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, who started the persecution of Catholics, died in 1616 from over-eating tempura, a dish invented by Catholics during Lent while they were visiting Japan in 1543, which was the same year the Shogun had been born.
jLAn TIL the Wu-Tang Clan released a fighting game for the Playstation. The game was notable for being one of the first to allow four players to fight on the same screen.
yVZ7l TIL Quebec banned all children under 16 years of age from attending movie theaters until 1961 due to a fire in a movie theater that killed 78 people, mostly children and teenagers, in 1927