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TIL Canadian pro wrestlers held a 12-man battle royal in 1999 to determine the leader of a satirical political party

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DQKNP TIL the Beatles' last live concert was four years before their breakup, and they played for about 30 minutes.
N7p8N TIL Nietzsche, Freud, Rilke, and Rée all fell in love with the same woman, Lou Salomé. Intellectual and prolific, she was the first female psychoanalyst and lived free of society’s prescription for women. She was the ultimate feminist/ubermensch, yet is completely forgotten by history.
GYJ75 TIL of the Bone Wars. In the late 1800s, two rival paleontologists sought to disgrace each other, resorting to bribery, theft, attempts to cut off funding, and destruction of bones. Both paleontologists were ruined financially, but their efforts led to the discovery of 136 new species of dinosaurs.
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