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TIL that Sarah Silverman, Mel Brooks, and several Holocaust survivors are featured in a documentary about why Holocaust humor is essential to overcoming and remembering those who perished.

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Y7MpA TIL of the katzenclavier, a hypothetical musical instrument which consists of a line of cats fixed in place with their tails stretched out underneath a keyboard so that they cry out when a key is pressed. The cats would be arranged according to the natural tone of their voices.
MbZW TIL that during a reading of Hamlet, a teenage girl confessed to her friend that she had poisoned her father - specifically, during the scene where Claudius, having just seen a play featuring a murder by poison, is wracked by guilt over poisoning Hamlet’s father
wLWOE TIL that during Shrek's production being sent to work on it was a punishment for not performing well on other Dreamworks projects.
ZpwWo TIL that contrary to belief, arranged marriages weren't the norm in Ancient India. According to the Mahabharata, the parents of King Bharata (from whom India gets its co-official name) fell in love and married each other alone in a forest.
ADB8a TIL that the year 536 is considered by some scholars to be the worst year ever to be alive due to volcanos, extreme weather, and famine throughout Europe and Asia