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TIL Hans Zimmer scored the Boss Baby

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ep546 TIL that there are Zoroastrians in India
neRGo TIL that French President Charles De Gaulle survived an assassination attempt due to the bullet being stopped by the frame of the photograph of his daughter Anne that he always carried with him. Anne had downs syndrome and died 14 years earlier at the age of 20
6ExYl TIL Danny DeVito directed AND acted in 'Matilda', took care of Mara Wilson(who played Matilda) AND her mother AND managed to snag and advance copy of the movie for her(the mother) to watch before she succumbed.
R7Qla TIL that there was a mail order service called Columbia House that accounted for 15.1% of all CD sales in 1994.
6EZ7X TIL The cliché "It was a dark and stormy night" originally opened a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, about a highwayman sentenced to death by a judge who turns out to be his father. Bulwer-Lytton infamously convinced Dickens to change "Great Expectations" to give it a more conventional "happy" ending.