TIL Simpsons writer Brent Forrester went to Lollapalooza as research for the episode Homerpalooza. He had a horrible experience which inspired several jokes for the episode: cameras being siezed and thrown in the trash, a freak show, and at one point a stranger asked him, "How's it going, narc?"
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Homerpalooza
"Homerpalooza" is the twenty-fourth and penultimate episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 19, 1996. In the episode, Homer is shocked to find…
TIL when Rivers Cuomo, lead singer of Weezer, was attending Harvard, he was unrecognizable to most. He walked with a cane, had a thick beard, long hair, and thick glasses. Fans would walk by in Weezer shirts and not recognize him.
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Rivers Cuomo
American musician
TIL a professional football team from Wales included a clause in a players contract he must have a “physical liaison” with a sheep.
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TIL during WW1 in Britain the selling of fresh bread was banned and all bread had to be sold stale so people would eat less of it
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The fresh bread ban - The National Archives
During the First World War, British food supplies were affected by a number of factors: poor harvests at home and abroad; reduced food imports as a result
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TIL that Tim Curry was one of the top choices to play the Joker in the 1989 “Batman” film, but the role went to Jack Nicholson instead. Curry later voiced the Joker in the 1992 animated series, but was quickly replaced by Mark Hamill as his voice was deemed “too scary”.
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40 Facts You Probably Didn't Know About Tim Curry
The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Annie. Legend. Clue. Stephen King's It. Home Alone 2. It's an appropriately wild, wide-ranging resume for Tim Curry, one of the
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TIL that Ramjit Raghav was the oldest father, he had his first child with his wife at age 94, and had a second child at age 96. He passed away in 2020 at the age of 104
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Ramjit Raghav
Indian man
TIL The Dark Side of the Rainbow is the pairing of the Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon with the film The Wizard of Oz. This produces numerous moments of apparent synchronicity where the film and the album appear to correspond. Members of Pink Floyd denied any intent to connect them.
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The Dark Side of the Rainbow
mashup pairing of Wizard of Oz movie and Dark Side of the Moon album
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TIL Liam Neeson's wife died on a bunny slope while taking a ski lesson at Mt. Tremblant in Quebec
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Natasha Richardson
British actress (1963–2009)
TIL In Rastafari, "Zion" stands for a utopian place of unity, peace and freedom, as opposed to "Babylon", the oppressing and exploiting system of the materialistic modern world and a place of evil.
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Zion
place name often used as a synonym for Jerusalem
TIL that Batman was created almost at the same time as the Black Bat, a pulp fiction hero so similar that the publishers considered suing each other. They eventually found an agreement: the Black Bat wouldn't appear in comics, and in exchange, Batman wouldn't appear in pulp magazines.
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The Pulp Super-Fan
Meet The Black Bat
The Black Bat is a lesser pulp hero, but still well remembered. He was part of the “third wave” of pulp heroes (Will Murray’s term), all of whom could have been comic-book charact…
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TIL that in World War I, a homing pigeon named Cher Ami was shot by the Germans, but managed to keep flying and carry the message of help. Thanks to this, 194 American soldiers were saved
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Cher Ami
homing pigeon used by the U.S. Army Signal Corps
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TIL Henry Ford is the only American mentioned favorably in Mein Kampf. Ford was also awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest medal Nazi Germany bestowed upon foreigners, for his antisemitic writing.
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Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
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TIL A Fistful of Dollars by Sergio Leone was identified as an unofficial remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, and he received 15% of the western’s revenue, after Kurosawa wrote to Leone about it.
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Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dollars and the curious case of Kurosawa vs Leone
Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars is widely thought to be an unofficial remake of Kurosawa’s Yojimbo
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[TIL] Bobby Womack, just two months after Sam Cooke’s passing, married Cooke’s widow, Barbara. Then five years later, Barbara shot Womack for having an affair with his 17-year old stepdaughter, Linda Cooke (Sam’s daughter).
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Bobby Womack
American singer and songwriter (1944–2014)
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TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart who served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; was blinded in his left eye; survived two plane crash and tunneled out of a prisoner-of-war camp.
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Adrian Carton de Wiart
recipient of the Victoria Cross
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TIL that owning "The Guy Game" is considered illegal, due to one of the actors being underage and having explicit scenes.
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PeakD
The Most Dangerous Game: How Simply Owning One Title For Your PS2, Xbox, or PC Could Get You Arrested | PeakD
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TIL You’re not supposed to rinse with water after spitting out toothpaste
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Sensodyne
Should You Rinse After Brushing?
Learn about whether you should rinse after brushing teeth with Sensodyne. Rinsing right after brushing can wash away the fluoride that strengthens your teeth.
TIL the largest known Prime Number is 2^82,589,933− 1. It contains 24,862,048 digits, and a search for a potential larger Prime is ongoing.
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Largest known prime number
largest prime number that is currently known
TIL that the upon learning of JFK's death, the crew members of Air Force One removed four seats from the aircraft and a portion of the bulkhead in order to accommodate for JFK's casket as they simply refused to put the 'President's body in the cargo hold'.
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TIL that Founding Father Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay about farts.
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Fart Proudly
essay written by Benjamin Franklin
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TIL the writer of 'Crime and Punishment', Dostoevsky, was sentenced to death by firing squad for political reasons. Moments before he was to be shot, a cart delivered a letter from the Tsar commuting the sentence to four years of exile in Siberia
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
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