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TIL Macaulay Culkin, child star of the Home Alone films, bought Marilyn Manson his first pack of cigarettes during the filming of Party Monster in 2003. He said he thought this ironic as Manson is meant to be seen as an ‘anarchist’ and it’s Culkin corrupting him.

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OEL6 TIL of “The Mad Piper” Bill Millin, the only bagpiper to land on the beach in Normandy. While men fell around him, he played his pipes throughout the battle. A group of captured German snipers was asked why they hadn’t shot him. They replied that they thought he’d gone insane and felt bad for him.
b6YlZ TIL about the Shahnameh (The Book of Kings) an epic poem of 50k couplets considered to be the touchstone of Persian (Iranian) culture.
epkbD TIL that when Pete Best was sacked from the Beatles, angry fans attending their next gig at The Cavern were heard chanting ‘Pete for ever, Ringo never’ and ‘Pete is Best'. George Harrison also ended up with a black eye during some scuffles.
DQQvp TIL That the first British person kill in WWI was a reconnaissance cyclist and there is a monument to cyclists killed.
b9MV7 TIL that child prodigy and world-renowned pianist Evgeny Kissin has also given recitals of modern and classical Yiddish poetry.