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TIL in 1964, the FBI spent 4 months investigating the song “Louie Louie” by The Kingsmen after receiving complaints about obscene lyrics. The investigation ended without persecution. Ironically, the word “Fuck” appears in the song, shouted by the drummer after he accidentally dropped his drumstick.

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loMea TIL Bruce Dickinson (lead singer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden) and his then-solo band drove through the front lines of war in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war. They weren't protected and there were bullets flying around. They played a show for the people trapped in the city.
Wkpnd TIL that Texas still has a mutual combat law. This means that duelling is still legal according the Texas penal code. The law states that any two individuals who feel the need to fight can agree to mutual combat through a signed, verbal or implied communication and have at it (fists only, however).
KORB6 TIL pineapples are actually in a proto-carnivorous plant family called bromeliads. Water trapped in their crowns supports thriving mini-ecosystems, whose residents and their droppings are absorbed for nutrients (not energy) through their leaves, as most plants can actually do.
ZpDaR TIL about Mike Malloy. Known as “Iron Mike”, “Rasputin of the Bronx”, or simply “Mike the Durable”, he survived multiple attempts on his life by "acquaintances" to collect insurance money. They ultimately succeeded in killing him, but were convicted of their crimes.
4kkL5 TIL that the treatment for being scalped is to have holes drilled through the exposed skull.