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TIL the Horse Head used in the Godfather was real.

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X0wKD TIL Guinness World Records and Ripley Entertainment (Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!) are owned by the same conglomerate based in Vancouver, BC.
b6kKN TIL that the songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel prize in literature for "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"
6E6YZ TIL Chanel's directors were Jewish and that during the Nazi invasion of France Coco Chanel used her position as an "Aryan" to claim sole ownership. The Wertheimers, anticipating the move, turned the control over to a Christian French businessman who, after the war, returned the company to them
a867b TIL that China's national anthem is taken from a 1935 film called Children of Troubled Times.
M7Zm0 TIL the pluckiest black-capped chickadees—the ones most likely to approach people for food—are usually lower-ranking members of their flock who take more risks out of necessity