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TIL that Nguyen is the last name of 40% of all Vietnamese.

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6EDEw TIL that The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, the 1980 movie about the Sex Pistols, has a club scene with a disco mash-up of their songs
N9bE TIL that the beard of Tutankhamun’s golden mask fell off during the cleaning process in the Egyptian Museum in 2014. The workers used epoxy glue to reattach the beard, but since that was not the professional method and permanent damage was done to the mask they were prosecuted for this in 2016.
LDv TIL movie theaters mark up popcorn an average of 1275 percent.
Y7gDP TIL Red Dwarf stars live for trillions of years, and no Red Dwarf has ever died in the history of the universe.
1aJr7 TIL in the 1960s, two doctors made a taxidermy female turkey to see what attracted a male. They discovered almost nothing stopped the male’s advances, even when the female’s wings, feet, and legs were removed. The male even made attempts to a stick with female’s head on it.