› added 2 years ago

129

TIL That during a duet between John Lennon and Chuck Berry on a 1972 episode of 'The Mike Douglas Show' the show's sound engineer cut off the mic of Yoko Ono who had been interrupting with incomprehensible wailing during a rendition of 'Memphis Tennessee'.

Read more micdropmusic.com

via reddit.com

R7gYl TIL that the ‘declinism bias’ makes us think the world is getting worse despite evidence to the contrary.
VBl4Z TIL that the last recipient of the Gaddafi Human Rights Prize is Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who was awarded the prize in 2010.
WXDX TIL when prison rape is counted, more men are raped in the US every year than women
woeYM TIL that Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, was the first U.S. presidential candidate to be assassinated
avJ0 TIL Artist Damien Hirst set an art auction record by selling one of his works for $19 million in 2007. The entire work is just a glass case with some random pharmaceutical pills in it.