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TIL Adriano Celentano (singer of "Prisencolinensinainciusol") is the father of Rosalinda Celentano (Satan in "The Passion of the Christ").

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ldNK TIL President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalyn Carter (née Smith), have been married for 70 years.
JbG1 TIL critics complained Indian artist Daler Mehndi of being popular only because he featured beautiful dancing women in his music videos. Mehndi’s response was to create a music video that featured only himself. So that’s how the popular music video “Tunak Tunak Tun” was born.
6EkQJ TIL that a lost wallet led to the 5th Dimension recording “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In.”After one of the group’s members left his wallet in a taxi, a producer of “Hair” found it and invited the singers to the Broadway show, inspiring them to record what became one of 1969’s biggest hits.
e07Mn TIL that tons of wreckage from the USS Arizona, removed during Memorial construction in 1962, were dumped on the ground in Waipio Peninsula near Pearl Harbor, and remain there today.
grKB4 TIL Costco sold $100M in gold bars in 3 months