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TIL The Beatles refused to play to segregated shows and were key in ending racially segregated events.

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epx1n TiL that the stock trading shenanigsns in the 1983 film TRADING PLACES actually helped change financial trading laws in 2010 with what became known as 'The Eddie Murphy Rule'.
xGl1 TIL I learned of the Soldier’s Poem, an epitaph often inscribed on falled WWII soldier’s graves: “And When he gets to heaven, To Saint Peter he will tell; One more Soldier reporting, sir. I’ve served my time in Hell!”
4XJxJ TIL that the worldwide production of the Volkswagen Beetle ended on 2003, 65 years after its original launch.
lXYB TIL Steven Tyler adopted a 14 yr old groupie so she could tour with him and he could have a relationship with her
4XxlX TIL that it is not illegal to grow, possess and consume "magic mushrooms" (Psilocybe cubensis) here in Brazil (basically because we don't have a law against it) and there is even a web store selling them (alongside shitake, shiimeji and porcini mushrooms).