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TIL that The Replacements (who were replacing The Pointer Sisters at the last minute as the SNL musical guest) smuggled booze and drugs backstage, got drunk with Harry Dean Stanton, broke a guitar on their way to perform, swore on-air, and were banned from returning to the show.

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5YvQQ TIL that food waste in America is 80 billion lbs a year
ZgKv TIL that in 1963 there was a Canadian band called “Four Niggers and a Chink”. They broke up in 1969 and then got back together in 1990. In 1990 they went by “Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers”.
jNZEN TIL that Pepsi once offered a Harrier Jet for 7,000,000 Pepsi Points. One man ended up suing Pepsi after he tried to cash in his points for the jet but never received it.
XVeE TIL that when celebrity chef Jamie Oliver slaughtered a live lamb on television, he was praised by PETA for broadcasting it uncensored, as it “could turn the more diehard carnivore into a vegetarian”.
699OJ TIL that Leonardo da Vinci invented the first glider with directional commands for the pilot. Many attempts have been made to build or model the original idea of Leonardo, however the actual flight potentialities are still unclear. This is last interpretation from the original sketch.