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TIL For Decades, Southern States Considered Thanksgiving an Act of Northern Aggression

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N7oKM TIL in 2001, while performing the song "Two Step," Dave Matthews sang the words "Let it rain" and immediately the crowd was poured on by a violent rain and hail storm, which did not stop until the song concluded. This performance has now been called "Two Step in the Rain."
Oodn1 TIL In 1978, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was convicted of heroin possession in Canada where he was ordered by the judge to play a benefit concert at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind
9Y46p TIL Robin Williams improvised so much during the filming of Mrs. Doubtfire, that director Chris Columbus was able to make a PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 cut of the film.
yV5ll TIL that Swiss chard is a variety of beet that’s been cultivated for leaf growth
wowJ TIL the security guard who discovered a pipe bomb at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, alerted police, and helped evacuate the area was later considered a suspect by the FBI and presumed guilty by the media. He was exonerated when a homegrown terrorist confessed nine years later.