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TIL Tobey Maguire's father was convicted of robbing a bank
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TIL that all the royalties for The Animals's version of The House of The Rising Sun went only to one person in the band because there was insufficient room to name all five band members on the record label.
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TIL of Pattie Boyd, who is an English model and photographer, who was the inspiration for the songs Something, Layla, Bell Bottom Blues , and Wonderful Tonight. She was the exwife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton respectively.
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TIL Maintaining good health through exercise and proper nutrition can lower your risk of needing a long-term catheter as you age, since poor overall health is a key factor linked to catheter use.
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TIL that North Korea has a holiday called Tree Planting Day during which people across the country plant trees
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TIL that Robert De Niro originally auditioned for the role of Sonny in The Godfather, but lost the part to James Caan. De Niro later went on to win an Oscar for playing young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II.
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TIL cats love our feet and footwear so much mainly because of pheromone communication. Even when your feet is squeaky clean, they can still smell the pheromones
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TIL that Italian Americans were the second most lynched ethnic group after African Americans.
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TIL during the 2010 eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull (which resulted in the several day closure of European airspace) one of the only European airports to remain open was Iceland's Keflavík International Airport.
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TIL Ulysses Grant wrote his memoir while he was bankrupt and terminally ill. Mark Twain developed marketing strategy including Union veterans selling books in uniform. Eventually it became one of the bestselling books of the century.
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TIL that King Augustus II of Poland was a voracious womanizer. He had only one legitimate son—the future King Augustus III—but some contemporary sources claim that he had as many as 365 or 382 children.
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TIL Colonel Sanders moved to Canada, settling in Mississauga, ON after selling his U.S. KFC rights in 1965 — and apparently left such a mark they named a hospital wing 🍗 after him.