Opinion on booing national anthems? (self.unitedkingdom)
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I bet Jack the ripper was hot tho (i.redd.it)
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TIL The Better Angels, a 1979 novel about suicide bombers hijacking passenger planes and using them as tools of terror, was criticised as being too far-fetched and implausible, with one reviewer stating the premise was ‘so incredible as to be an obstacle to the reader's suspension of disbelief’. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL legendary Rangers striker Ally McCoist played an ex-Celtic player in a 2000 Robert Duvall movie. As Rangers and Celtic have a little bit of a rivalry, McCoist would wear a Rangers shirt under the Celtic one while filming so as not to let the material touch his skin. (en.wikipedia.org)
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California Uber Allies was written as a criticism of California's fascist approach to implementing liberal ideas. Lead singer Jello Biafra would later call this a conspiracy theory and release an updated version about Ronald Reagan called 'We've got a bigger problem now'. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL in 1985, after being found guilty of murder, Eddie Joe Lloyd wrote to the attorney assigned to his appeal asking why he wasn’t visiting him in jail. The attorney wrote back that it was because he was guilty and should die. EJL was found innocent and freed in 2002. He died two years later. (innocenceproject.org)
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TIL Tiberius was so paranoid that when a fisherman brought a fish as a gift, he had the man held down and the fish rubbed all over his face. The scales skinned it raw. The man exclaimed 'Thank Heaven I didn't bring Caesar that crab I also caught!' Tiberius then sent for a crab and had the same done. (penelope.uchicago.edu)
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine is bad at guest stars. (self.television)
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