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TIL Johnny Depp adopted the one-eyed horse that played Ichabod Crane’s steed, Gunpowder, in Sleepy Hollow to save him from being put down.

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OKe4 TIL that research indicates black americans really do tip waiters less than whites americans, but likely as part of a cycle: waiters resist serving African Americans, or they provide poorer service, which discourages blacks from patronizing table-service restaurants.
yQBew TIL, that one of the greatest composers in the world, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, was homosexual and that the Soviet and Russian government have hidden his letters that were telling about his sexual desiers until 1995 from the public. More but not all letters were published in later in 2009.
811G TIL: that there is a town called Redditch. Redditch once produced 90% of the world’s needles.
awPQA TIL Whoopi Goldberg's birth name is Caryn Elaine Johnson. "Whoopi" is because she got gassy, "Goldberg" is due to a claim of Jewish ancestry.
O1n1 TIL: During the Third Reich, there was a programme called Lebensborn, where ‘racially pure’ women slept with SS officers in the hopes of producing Aryan children. An estimated 20,000 children were born during 12 years.