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TIL; Bistro is not French for Cáfe, but the word Russian cosacks would shout at French waiters, meaning “quickly”

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oRvOE TIL some of the acts at Woodstock weren't paid very much. Jimi Hendrix and Blood, Sweat & Tears were highest paid at $18,000 and $15,000 respectively - but at the low end acts like Joe Cocker ($1375), Santana ($750), and Melanie ($750) were payed much less. Sha Na Na was only paid $700!
M7Jj8 TIL that almost every African country boycotted the 1976 Olympics because of New Zealand – whose rugby team had toured Apartheid South Africa earlier that year, yet was not banned by the Olympic organizers
OoaZX TIL that bluefin tuna can struggle so much when caught that it can literally cook itself due to the generated heat from the muscles
P1ENE TIL Professional wrestler Scott Hall was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder, years after killing a man in self defense. Hall wrestled away the drunken man’s gun, and shot him in the head, outside of Hall’s place of work.
gjx4 TIL There’s a Coke machine on Capitol Hill that has no permits, known owner or operator and yet has remained stock, sometimes with discontinued products, and functioning for years.