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TIL A man lost a legal battle to keep his strip club open, then walked into an in-progress city council meeting and paid court ordered legal fees($6,400), with 4 $100 bills and 1.65 tons of pennies.

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a8ByJ TIL Jeweled skeletons were found in Rome in 1578 and distributed as replacements to churches because they were thought to be Christian martyrs that had been lost in the Reformation. However, their identities were not known.
Mex1a TIL In 1980, Punk Rock band Dead Kennedys was invited to play at an awards show to give the event "new wave credibility". Seconds into their set, they stopped to perform 'Pull My Strings', a song written specifically to take the piss out of the music execs in the room. They never played it again.
9w0rQ TIL Mario is only "about 24-25 years old", according to his creator Shigeru Miyamoto.
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