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TIL about the “Seneca Drums,” a mysterious booming sound that comes from Seneca Lake in upstate NY.

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W7ZlL TIL that, after being disqualified from the 1953 Le Mans race, driver Duncan Hamilton found a local bar in town and got drunk. Shortly thereafter, officials ruled that he could enter. Hamilton subsequently won the race.
6rpw TIL Pink Floyd were refused payment after a show in 1966. The club owner claimed “Their performance wasn’t music”. They took him to court and lost
lRDa TIL the NFL owns the licensing rights to every team except the Cowboys. In 1995 Cowboy’s owner Jerry Jones started to make his own deals, NFL sued him for 300 million, to make the league back down, Jerry counter sued them for 750 million.
epZE5 TIL in 2010 during Netherlands' Remembrance Day ceremony a man screamed so loud into crowd of 20,000 people it caused a panic stampede injuring 87.
8elgG TIL that the line "You gotta keep 'em separated" in The Offspring's song "Come Out and Play" came from when singer Dexter Holland worked in a biology lab. He had two steaming flasks of liquid that weren't cooling off when placed next to each other, so he thought, "I've got to keep 'em separated."