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

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NPX6 TIL everyone in the Jetsons was white - there was not a single person of colour shown in any of the 75 episodes
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E1nOw TIL of John Birges, who flew in the Luftwaffe, escaped a Russian Gulag, made millions in the U.S. from his landscaping business, and then spent the rest of his life in prison after using 1,000 lbs of dynamite to blow up a Nevada Casino.
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