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TIL in 1988, Quentin Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator on an episode of Golden Girls.

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x6jvw TIL in 1987 a female orca off the Pacific coast of North America was spotted sporting a dead salmon on her head. Within weeks, individuals in two other pods also began wearing fish hats. The trend lasted a few months, then fizzled out within a year.
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