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TIL The Rolling Stones, the cast of Empire Strikes Back, and Monty Python’s Eric Idle partied together one night at his house in London in 1979

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kGW7 TIL a 20-year old anonymous British man from Birmingham dresses up as Spider Man in the night to help homeless people - by buying them food from the supermarket.