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X0vnD TIL that in 1960 John Lennon and Paul McCartney played their only gig together as The Nerk Twins at a pub owned by McCartney's cousin. Lennon and McCartney visited for a week during the Easter holidays, worked behind the bar and performed twice over the weekend.
W7Ex9 TIL that a Korean serial killer named Yoo Young-chul was caught in 2004 because a brothel owner just happened to recognize Yoo's phone number after other prostitutes—who were murdered by Yoo—had gone missing.
rN484 TIL that in 1992 video game magazine, EGM, published an article that, as an April fools joke, alluded to the presence of a hidden character in Street Fighter named Sheng Long. This joke took off and so many people bought into it they eventually actually did add a Sheng Long character to the series
mxjgP TIL the real MASH surgeon Hawkeye Pierce was based on was a hawkish conservative who hated Alan Alda's portrayal.
8aP8b TIL Romans didn't vomit during feasts, a vomitorium is a series of entrance or exit passages in an ancient Roman amphitheatre or theatre.