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TIL that “The Safety Dance” is a protest against bouncers stopping dancers pogoing to 1980s new wave music in clubs when disco was dying and new wave was up and coming.

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oXM8 TIL The “Harlem Hellfighters” were the first African American regiment in WWI who were assigned to the French forces. None were captured, never lost a trench, or a foot of ground to the enemy. They returned to the U.S. as one of the most successful regiments of World War I
4XyeR TIL The man who played McGruff the crime dog was sentenced to 16 years in jail for drugs
9YGKX TIL Sesame Street briefly featured a muppet named Don Music, a composer who frequently banged his head against his piano. After numerous complaints from parents that children were copying his behaviour, the character was retired
e57k TIL Stephen King’s lawyers had to buy the van that hit King in 1999 to keep it from appearing on eBay.
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