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TIL that Guitar Center was originally named The Organ Center. When the Beatles became popular, the organ supplier demanded that Organ Center begin selling Vox guitar amplifiers.

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OoG1g TIL that Gary Oldman said his screaming of the now iconic line 'Bring me everyone!' in the film 'The Professional' was improvised to make the director Luc Besson laugh. The yelled take is the one used in the film.
kOyv7 TIL that a man bet his friend that he could make any house famous. To accomplish this, he wrote thousands of letters requesting services at 54 Berners Street. So many people showed up on the day that parts of London were shut down. The man (who watched it unfold from across the street) won the bet.
wlwJ TIL Japan’s oldest business, temple builder Kongo Gumi, in operation under the founders’ descendants since AD 578, went out of business in 2006.
ygOe TIL that women’s faces and breasts become more symmetrical during ovulation, which makes them appear more attractive
Ak9x TIL: An MIT researcher found that longer SAT essays consistently produced higher scores. By simply gauging the length of an essay without reading it, the given score of an essay could likely be determined correctly over 90% of the time.