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TIL "Titanic" stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet funded Titanic's last known survivor, Millvina Dean's, nursing home fees.

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kAP7 TIL 60 years ago the Rose Parade was the first national color broadcast. The quality was so poor you had look at B&W sets to see the details of the floats & back to the color sets to see the colors.
dPDd TIL of the Aztec Death Whistle. It is a skull shaped wood whistle, that sounds like someone screaming. It was used to intimidate their enemies during war.
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