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TIL The Chipmunks - Alvin, Simon and Theodore - are named after executives from their creator's record label Liberty Records.

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Pj4g TIL: When the Romans returned from France and Germany with blonde slaves, some Roman women tried copying the look by dying their hair blond, only for it to fall out. Instead the women cut off the slaves hair to use as wigs.
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