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TIL that to counter protest the Westboro baptist church, who were picketing outside the venue, the foo fighters dressed up in costume and performed on the back of a truck across from the protesters.

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p8DZA TIL in the 1970s food advertising started moving, which is why we see all the fancy tricks: shrimp doing flips, apples sliced in mid air, lobster claws cracking in slow-motion, french fries bouncing across a table. Because of Elbert Budin.
dNdd TIL Pornhub asked people to stop uploading the Germany vs Brazil match, as their ‘public humiliation category is full’.
jloa TIL Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, took LSD on his deathbed and died tripping.
b6Gmp TIL that a landing gear door from MH370 — the Malaysian plane deliberately crashed into the Indian Ocean by its pilot in 2014 — was found years later being used as a washing board by a fisherman’s wife in Madagascar
loQN5 TIL the last blockbuster store is selling merch to help stay in business, and they have an online store