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TIL Marlon Brando was only 47 when The Godfather was released in 1972.

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ND8N TIL in the 1920s, as a joke, newly hired engineers at General Electric would be told to develop a frosted lightbulb, which the experienced engineers believed to be impossible. In 1925, newly hired Marvin Pipkin got the assignment, and astonished his peers by succeeding.
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