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TIL To avoid nepotism as being the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, Nicolas Kim Coppola changed his last name to Cage

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oBkyY TIL the New York City Blackout of 1977 helped ignite the Hip-Hop scene. Prior to the outage, there was only a handful of DJ’s in the area, which was suffering economically. After, there were over a 1000 DJ’s due to people looting the music equipment stores during the blackout. Hip-hop had exploded.
9wbbp TIL in 1610, Opossunoquonuske, a female chieftain of the Powhatan Confederacy, used “feminine guile” to lure 14 English settlers to a feast, convincing them to leave their weapons on their boat. It was a trap—her warriors ambushed them, killing 13. Only one man survived.
0dNKA TIL that the hit song ‘It Must Have Been Love’ performed by Roxette was originally released as a Christmas song in 1987. The song was slightly re-edited in 1990 for the ‘Pretty Woman’ soundtrack and all Christmas references from the song were removed.
ZpxeD TIL that Eric Clapton used very thin strings back in the 60's so they were easy to bend. He therefore broke strings every evening and would spend time between songs changing and tuning to the slow hand clap of the adoring audience. Hence his nickname: Eric SLOWHAND CLAPton
l7OJN TIL that we should not feed bread to birds on a regular basis or as their regular diet. It provides little to no nutritional value, which may also lead to airplane wing, also known as angel wing disease.