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TIL 1968 Night of the Living Dead premiered in the afternoon when children and parents often attended. Thinking the movie would be 'delightfully horror', by the time the movie ended, the theatre and children were still, with some crying, for many, it was the first time ever seeing the hero die

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0dPvj TIL The State Legislature of Virginia, The Virginia General Assembly, is the oldest lawmaking body in the New World and was established at Jamestown, on July 30, 1619. 157 years later, seven Virginians who had been elected to this body would sign the Declaration of Independence, on August 2nd, 1776.
J1dMv TIL A community close to the jungles in Uganda received $50,000, the area's 20 percent share of annual income from gorilla tourism and now villagers are motivated to protect gorillas. In the past residents didn't realize gorillas were rare or special as some people even ate them
rNL80 TIL Bride Price (dowry) was paid if a man slept with a virgin woman and for her to be his bride, is still practiced today in Asia, Europe and some parts of Africa.
EgPE0 TIL tobacco enemas were once used to resuscitate drowning victims, as well as to treat an array of maladies, including headaches, hernias, respiratory ailments, and abdominal cramps. This gave rise to the phrase "blowing smoke up (one's) ass."
E7lP TIL that, in all 403 of his episodes, Bob Ross used the same 8 colors on his pallette so that his audience didn’t “have to go out and buy 1500 different kinds of colors” in order to paint along with him each week.