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TIL: Cocksucker Blues is an unreleased documentary film about The Rolling Stones. Even though the band had commissioned the film, they decided that it was embarrassing and incriminating and did not want it shown. A court order forbids it from being shown unless the director is physically present.

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jN0oE TIL italian astrologer Pietro d'Abano died during his second trial after being charged by the inquisition for using magic.He was posthumously found guilty but his friend secretly removed his body, so the inquisition had to be content with burning an effigy of him instead of the real body.
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