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TIL Glutinous Rice Does Not Contain Any Gluten
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TIL The band “The Who” were banned for life from all Holiday Inns when Keith Moon started a food fight with a 5-tier cake, once the police arrived he stripped to his underwear, jumped into his car, drove it through a fence and left it in the bottom of the Flint Holiday Inn pool.
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TIL that in the 60s, most people used just one Alka-Seltzer tablet at a time. They created the popular “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz” jingle to encourage people to use two tablets — sales nearly doubled.
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TIL that on November 22, 1963, just hours after JFK’s assassination, comedian Lenny Bruce performed a scheduled nightclub gig. Bruce walked up on stage and stood in silence for a few moments. Then, referring to the famed JFK impersonator, he stated in a sad voice “Boy, is Vaughn Meader fucked.”
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TIL that in the 16 years before the Berlin Wall was built, 3.5 million East Germans fled the country through West Berlin. In the 28 years after it was built, only 5,000 managed to escape.
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TIL that If you hear the GameCube menu background music sped up to 16x you will hear the same tune of the Famicom’s Disk System startup.