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TIL when the Sex Pistols, considered one of the most influential acts in the history of popular music, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, they refused to attend the ceremony, calling the museum “a piss stain.”

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VMPAB TIL in the 1880s Lamar Thompson was so disgusted that saloons and brothels were tempting Americans into “vices” and hated the "sinful" behavior of fellow humans who engaged in sex, drinking and going out for “fun” that he invented the roller coaster to distract people from sinning.
XEVrQ TIL of August Natterer, who, on April Fool's Day 1907, had a pivotal hallucination of the Doomsday, during which "10,000 images flashed by in half an hour". He spent the rest of his life in a mental institution, where he became a prolific painter, attempting to capture his hallucination.
Xb0D TIL that there was a 5th element along with earth, wind, fire and water which was called an æther. An aether was referred to as anything of natural phenomena, such as light or gravity.
PYY4G TIL Tanks are called tanks because, when they were introduced in WWI, the British were trying to fool the Germans into thinking the weapons were water carriers for the Middle Eastern front of the war.
kJ4NE TIL the New York Jets have never beaten the Philadelphia Eagles. The first time they played was in 1973.