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PY9QE TIL Vito Corleone’s cat in The Godfather was a stray that had wandered onto the set.
Lm1Z TIL: That in Damian Marley’s Welcome To Jamrock, the line “Out in the street they call it murder” they don’t say murder but merther, which denotes the trance like state you reach when smoking weed and listening to reggae. The line it self is actually a sample from Ini Kamoze’s World A Music.
DQPyV TIL Guarani is the most widely spoken American language and remains commonly used among the Paraguayan people and neighboring communities.
yw1M TIL: That Anne Frank only assumed that her father was killed in the concentration camps and that a childhood friend of hers stated that if she knew he was still alive she believed Anne would have summoned the courage to survive
WKoA TIL That Nordic folklore has a Christmas character called “Perchta the Disemboweller”, who would either give you coins for being good or would slit your belly open and fill it with oats and straw if you had been bad.