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TIL after Salvador Dalí and Harpo Marx met and expressed mutual admiration, Dalí sent Harpo a Christmas present: a harp with barbed wire for strings and spoons for tuning knobs, wrapped in cellophane. Harpo was delighted and sent Dalí a photo of himself sitting at the harp with bandaged fingers.

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8eL6K TIL The Birds (Spring/Summer 1995) is the fifth collection by British designer Alexander McQueen for his eponymous fashion house. The Birds was inspired by ornithology, the study of birds, and the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds, for which it was named
78ed7 TIL that David Bowie’s final album, “Blackstar” was likely inspired by an unused Elvis Presley song “Black Star.” It contains the lyrics “When a man sees his Black Star / he knows his time has come.”
oRJbY TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte didn't really spoke french until he was around 10 years old.
eZ8g TIL Cookie Monster is allergic to peanut butter cookies and hazelnut cookies according to the 1978 special “Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.”
e0joE TIL if an Albatross baby falls out of the nest, like a few inches away and the mum returns to the nest with a meal, it would not recognize the baby and it will starve and die. The baby has to try and climb back in to survive.