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TIL that Metallica allegedly plagiarized their song Enter Sandman from a band named Excel

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Q8Mp TIL Al Capone’s brother was a distinguished prohibition agent and acted as bodyguard to a US president.
axQJ TIL when Astronaut Ed Mitchell was asked what it’s like to stand on the moon, he said: “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’
e0Om5 TIL of the secret bunker in Rothenstein, Germany where billionaires hide away in a crisis - luxury apartments, a swimming pool, movie theater, pub - all in an underground bunker designed to withstand a nuclear war... or pandemic.
epwp6 TIL that Scarface (1983) staring Al Pacino is a remake of the 1932 original about Italian immigrant Antonio "Tony" Camonte, a Chicago gangster
6VnY TIL that the word “Dord” was a ghost word for five years. It was printed in the “Webster’s New International Dictionary” in 1934 and supposed to read “D or d” for density. It wasn’t until 1939 that the mistake was discovered.