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TIL “Smoke on the Water” is a true story – it’s about a Zappa and Mothers of Invention concert where the whole place caught fire and burned down. Deep Purple were there to witness the whole thing.

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QJYxE TIL that the Maya used to import turkeys from Mexico and worship them like gods.
4Xa5g TIL of "starlight tours", a practice of the Saskatoon police that involved arresting Canadian indigenous people and dropping them off oustide city limits to freeze to death. It went from the 1970's to the early 2000's.
E1VPX TIL that Abraham Lincoln had dual citizenship (San Marino), it was granted to him by the San Marino government at the beginning of the American Civil War.
5YRB8 TIL about Yangnyeom chicken, a variety of Korean fried chicken. Its creator, Yoon Jonggye, devised it by analysing his customers' leftovers.
5R0p TIL that an Apollo astronaut lost his wedding ring during his trip to the moon… and found it again during a spacewalk.