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TIL that in 1985 The Beastie Boys supported Madonna for her debut tour, after her last song on the final show they came on stage and squirted her with water pistols.

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X0GDj TIL that the army built a tunnel to drain Spirit Lake, to relieve water pressure against a natural dam created by the eruption of Mount St. Helens. If the tunnel fails - and it will - the dam will fail and a 40-foot wave will race down the valley, all the way to Kelso, WA, on the Columbia river.
J1nl4 TIL while filming “Dirty Dancing” in Oct 1984, the Virginian cold weather caused the temperatures to drop to 40 °F (4 °C) during the swimming scene. Jennifer Grey later described the water as “horrifically cold”, and said she might not have gone into the lake, except that she was “young and hungry.”
ndE9 TIL that an unknown Freddie Mercury, at the time a London shoe stall assistant, fitted David Bowie for a pair of boots – over 10 years before “Under Pressure” was recorded.
WKLd TIL of Lazzaro Spallanzani, who dressed male frogs in tight pants so that their sperm couldn’t escape into female frogs. He proved that the creation of new life required both the sperm and the egg.
b179 TIL in 1893 the first graduating class of New Mexico State University had only one student - and he was murdered before graduation.