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TIL Russell Crowe performed in a traveling production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".

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Nyde TIL NASA Vehicle Assembly building interior volume is so vast that it has its own weather, including “rain clouds form[ing] below the ceiling on very humid days”
o4xL TIL that Vidkun Quisling, the Norwegian prime minister during the Nazi occupation, was sentenced to death 2 years after he introduced death sentence to the country.
RAQj TIL in the 1960s South Korea secretly trained misfits plucked from prison or off the streets to sneak into North Korea and slit the throat of its leader, Kim Il-sung. When the mission was aborted, the men mutinied, killed their trainers and fought their way into Seoul before blowing themselves up.
W16d TIL In Switzerland, Rabies has been virtually eradicated after scientists placed chicken heads laced with a vaccine in the Swiss Alps. The foxes of Switzerland, proven to be the main source of rabies in the country, ate the chicken heads and immunized themselves.
x6lOk TIL Phil Ochs' performances at Carnegie Hall got him banned for life. His first show ended prematurely due to a bomb threat. Ochs then cut his thumb open breaking into the box office to give away tickets to disappointed fans. At Ochs second/final show he played to 3am and the power was cut.