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TIL The Beatles refused to play to a segregated audience as stipulated in their contract in 1965

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e6Z4 TIL Socrates taught Plato, Plato taught Aristotle, then Aristotle taught Alexander the Great.
ajMZ TIL that a company in England accidentally sent letters to some of its wealthy customers that began “Dear Rich Bastard”. One customer who did not receive the letter complained, certain their wealth was enough to warrant the “rich bastard” title.
ADwja TIL Napoleon’s penis was allegedly bought in 1977 by Columbia University professor emeritus John Lattimer for $3,000, who passed it on to his daughter before he died in 2007.
awJYZ TIL the UK spent £2.5m in the 1980s to imprison a consensual gay S&M community. The dominant partners were charged with assault and the submissive partners were charged with aiding their own assault.
B4b TIL that more people in the United Kingdom believe in a spirit or life-force than people that believe in a god.