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TIL that in 1996 small town Spanish Fork, Utah accidentally booked a Rage Against the Machine concert and citizens promptly lost their shit. “I’m concerned there might be a riot or something. It kind of scares me, that’s why I’m getting out of here,”

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OGGAe TIL in the UK, it is a legal requirement for at least 5% of all broadcasts on a channel to be in sign language. At least 10% must have audio description. This is on top of a requirement for 90% of programmes to be subtitled.
N7VgN TIL Prince is the sole credit on his first album. He sang all the parts and played all the instruments, including acoustic and electric guitars, acoustic piano and Fender Rhodes piano, synth bass, various keyboard synths by Oberheim, Moog and Arp, orchestra bells, drums, percussion and bass guitar.
grOJy TIL: A TACA airliner had both engines flame out on approach to New Orleans. The one-eyed pilot safely landed the plane on a levee. In lieu of towing the plane away, the two engines were replaced on scene and then took off from a public street.
xVJR7 TIL Le Pétomane was a French professional farter. His act involved sound effects of cannon fire and thunderstorms, as well as playing "'O Sole Mio" and "La Marseillaise" on an ocarina through his anus. He could also blow out a candle yards away. His audience included royalty and Sigmund Freud.
9Yr4r TIL that the poet who coined the phrases, “Variety’s the very spice of life” and “God moves in a mysterious way” was institutionalized for insanity, depression, and suicide attempts, but was also a forerunner of the Abolitionist movement.