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TIL that Signs was the first major Hollywood film to be shot after 9/11 having been filmed a few days after

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xV8B1 TIL that in 1969 the Rolling Stones hired the Hell's Angels to provide security for their gig at the Altamont Free Concert for a fee of $500 worth of beer. A man by the name of Meredith Hunter Jr. drew a revolver at the stage and was stabbed and kicked to death by the Hell's Angels.
YpgRx TIL that the phrase "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" came from the practice of saloons offering a free lunch to patrons purchasing at least one drink. Lunch consisted of salty finger-foods, encouraging the drinking of more beer.
MQDa TIL that the first school massacre in the US took place in Pennsylvania in 1764.
ev8k TIL Singapore is the only country on earth whose citizens don’t need a Visa to enter North Korea, South Korea, China or the United States.
QNJaE TIL in effort to keep morale high for WWII troops fighting in the Pacific, the British built a floating brewery and dispatched it to the South Seas