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TIL Mel Gibson is actually American born in 1956 and his father moved to Australia in 1968

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DQDe TIL while accepting the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1976, Paul Simon thanked Stevie Wonder for not releasing an album that year. Wonder had won the award in 1974 and 1975, and would win it again 1977
1Ex4 TIL John F. Kennedy was the first president to not wear a hat during his inauguration speech. Sales of men’s hats plummeted and due to this and other factors, have never recovered.
VBGZ0 TIL Brutus the Barber recounted a tale that Andre the Giant once had an emergency BM on a flight to Tokyo. Being too big to use the toilet, the crew improvised with a trash bag for him to use in a pinch but the smell filled the cabin leading to people puking, crying and falling out of seats.
k68d TIL–As Zelda Fitzgerald, Author F.Scott Fitzgerald’s wife, emerged from the anesthesia after giving birth, Scott recorded Zelda saying, “I hope it’s beautiful and a fool—a beautiful little fool.” This was a line later used for Daisy Buchanan within the Great Gatsby.
wLWOE TIL that during Shrek's production being sent to work on it was a punishment for not performing well on other Dreamworks projects.