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TIL that the word "shampoo" comes from the Indian word "champu" (hair cleansing and body massage during the daily bath) and was introduced to Britain around 1814 by an Indian businessman named Sake Dean Mahomed and his Irish wife.

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VB0J0 TIL that the Michael Myers mask used in Halloween (1978) was originally a Star Trek Capt. Kirk mask. The film had a limited budget, so the production crew bought the cheapest mask they could find at a Halloween store.
6Ee17 TIL Evan Chandler, the man who accused Michael Jackson of molesting his son, committed suicide 4 months after Jackson's death.
ykYa TIL Beyonce cleared the whole floor of a hospital for the birth of her child causing other present expectant parents to be seperated from there new born children
e00JJ TIL that during the summer of 1968 during which philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre was arrested for civil disobedience, President Charles de Gaulle intervened and pardoned him, commenting that "you don't arrest Voltaire".
xVN1g TIL David Bowie had little memory of recording his 10th studio album Station to Station as he had a cocaine habit and subsisted on only peppers and milk, spending much of 1975-1976 “in a state of psychic terror”