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TIL Sir David Attenborough is the only person to have won a BAFTA in black and white, color, HD and 3D.

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7b17 TIL that since Queen’s lead guitarist Brian May could not afford a guitar at the beginning of his career, his father and he decided to build an electric guitar from scratch with old oak wood from a fireplace in 1963. He still plays “Red” wherever he tours.
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