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TIL the original founders/owners of Macy’s died on the Titanic and were the old couple in the movie who went to sleep as the ship went down.

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X05JR TIL Dwayne the rock Johnson's movie contracts do not allow his character to lose fights
pYnde TIL Bonobo monkeys often have sex instead of fighting to resolve conflicts.
GvmN TIL Sean Connery’s knighthood was likely blocked by the British Labour Party for two years because of his support for an independent Scotland (he finally got it in 2000 and showed up in a kilt)
Vr0Q TIL rapper Lil Dicky made the music video for ’$ave Dat Money’ a song about saving money by asking house owners, a yatch owner and a car dealership if he could use their stuff for free. He also crashed a music video being shot by T-Pain and used it acting as if it were his own. Spending $0.
R7VPQ TIL that British comedian Tony Hawks became so frustrated with being mistaken for pro skateboarder Tony Hawk that he has published a book called "Tony Hawk's The A to Z of Skateboarding" that contains nothing about skateboarding.