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TIL that Clark Gable - The Hollywood Golden boy had a secret daughter! It's kind of crazy story....

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pYGKb TIL one of the first use of avant-garde technique of tape manipulation in music was the 1955 hit "Jingle Bells" by The Singing Dogs. Using a razor, Carl Weismann cut, then spliced sounds of dog barks together, correcting speed, pitch and melody of the resulting tape. It reached #22 on Billboard.
x6r8w TIL that Beatrice Straight won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and only appeared in the film for 5 minutes.
0dNBM TIL: All professional leagues have disaster plans for the loss of a team (ex: plane crash).
kJ9ve TIL Carlos Mavroleon, heir to a shipping tycoon, was pressumed dead after a trip to France. He ended up in Pakistan and returned home 2 years later, now a muslim and fluent in Pashtun. He mingled in high society, left again to fight the soviets in Afghanistan, and later became a war correspondent
705X TIL A typical Rihanna single hit costs around $75,000 to make, another million to promote it, and the lyrics are written in about 15 minutes.