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TIL Weezer’s first gig was opening for Keanu Reeves’s band, Dogstar

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PYrWJ TIL that Alice Cooper has no memory of recording three albums in the early eighties, because of his substance abuse.
0wdjM TIL the ampersand (&) is actually “and per se and”, and the character itself originated from the latin word et (and) turned into a single figure
xV4xo TIL that it’s still illegal to this day to drink alcohol in Saudi Arabia and people who are caught can be imprisoned and sometimes flogged.
Yp7Kx TIL that Charles Perkins an aboriginal rights activist, staged a fake kidnapping of a child when she was being deported to show how being deported was no different to being kidnapped. But the child was deported anyway.
x6PNw TIL that Diet Soda began with the 1949 launch of La Casera in Madrid, Spain, using cyclamate. In 1969, an experiment at UW-Madison found that a cyclamate combination caused bladder cancer in laboratory rats, and was accepted by consumers and doctors as a cause of cancer in humans.