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TIL about the time Elton John dressed up in a gorilla costume, ran up on stage and freaked out an extremely stoned Iggy Pop.

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1WYD TIL Sean Connery single handedly beat 4 men in a night club while Michael Caine held his coat.
oBKEr TIL a picture of Brock Turner's face was once used as the definition of "rape" in a Criminology textbook.
vP8Xx TIL about Jock Sturges, who loved photographing nude adolescents. In 1998, unsuccessful attempts were made to have his books The Last Day of Summer and Radiant Identities classed as child pornography in Arkansas and Louisiana. He also pled guilty to an unnatural and lascivious act with a child.
m0dM TIL that when told Sholem Aleichem, author of the book on which Fiddler on the Roof is based, “is the Jewish Mark Twain”, Twain replied “please tell him that I am the American Sholem Aleichem”
4kdgN TIL there are so many "Florida man" stories because Florida's public records laws allow journalists to access basic crime information almost in real time.