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TIL Bradbury, CA has a law making it illegal to be "in a state of drunkenness or intoxication to the annoyance of any other person" in private houses.

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awDVJ TIL that the 1994 box office bomb Baby's Day Out was a huge hit in South Asia, beating Star Wars as the most successful American film. It was played for over a year at the largest theater in Calcutta and spawned two remakes
xGy0 TIL that there is a theory by reputable physicists that the universe is made up of one electron that is moving forward and backward in time.
jNdXN TIL 2012 Olympics organisers wanted Keith Moon, who died in 1978, to play at the ceremony. When they asked the The Who's manager if Keith "would be available" to play, he replied "He now resides in Golders Green crematorium, If they have a round table, some glasses and candles, we might contact him"
VMaAD TIL that while Elizabeth Fraser was recording “Teardrop” with Massive Attack, she found out that her boyfriend Jeff Buckley drowned. She now considers this song to be “kind of about him.”
9wALp TIL of pneumoencephalography, a diagnostic procedure used until the 1970s where doctors drained most of the cerebral spinal fluid around the brain and replaced it with oxygen in order to make the brain show up more clearly on an X-ray