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TIL that Keith Moon, drummer for "The Who," was fond of blowing up hotel toilets. Starting with cherry bombs he later graduated to dynamite. Once, in response to a noise complaint, Moon asked a hotel manager to stay while he went to the bathroom, returned, and then waited for the toilet to explode

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