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TIL For 37 years the Supreme Court did not consider movies to be protected under the 1st amendment because “they may be used for evil”.

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9wKKG TIL the Pirahã tribe has a very unique culture and language. Among other unusual features, they appear to be the world’s only people who lack words for numbers or any concept of counting. They also have no past tense, no way of describing colors, and no concept of the ancient past or distant future.
e0gW5 TIL that Tippi Hedren, the star in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) is now 90 years old and still lives with lions and tigers after she began rescuing them in the early 1970s, according to her granddaughter, actress Dakota Johnson
OG5M7 TIL of the Angola, LA Prison Rodeo where untrained prisoners ride bulls and play "convict poker"
wo8AW TIL the Aerosmith song Walk This Way was inspired by the "walk this way" joke from Young Frankenstein.
Bg7OK TIL, In the movie 300, a Persian emissary is thrown down a well by Leonidas. In reality, Sparta sent two volunteers back to Persia to be executed, in atonement for the deaths of the Persians.