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TIL that Big Cats go Wild for Calvin Klein Cologne.

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M7bOB TIL that to protect trade secrets, the glassmakers guild in thirteenth-century Venice would imprison a glassmaker’s family if the glassmaker left the city, and if he still didn’t return they’d send an assassin to kill him.
0wA85 TIL the CIA submitted a report expressing concern that Boomers were a potential threat to western democracy.
4XNPb The world’s first ever known wheelie to be successfully attempted, c. 1936.
lo8m5 TIL Katy Perry named her perfume after the record killer queen stating "Freddie Mercury painted the lyrics of this woman who I wanted to be. She seemed very powerful, and she captivated a room when she walked in." Seemingly unbeknownst to KP; the song was about a high class hooker.
5rb8 TIL the Navajo extras in a 1964 classic John Ford western said crazy and ribald things on film in serious scenes because no one on set knew their language, including comments on other characters’ penis size and more.