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TIL Bram Stoker’s widow won a copyright lawsuit against the makers of the German classic film “Nosferatu.” Though the courts ordered all copies of the film burned, one survived hidden and was copied and disseminated making “Nosferatu” the first cult movie.

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61NW TIL of Liviu Librescu, a Romanian-born internationally renowned professor of aerospace engineering at Virginia Tech. He survived the holocaust. At age 76 he held the door of his classroom shut while the gunman attempted to enter it. Although shot 5 times, only 1 of his 23 students died that day.
DQvwP TIL of a fungus that infects periodical cicadas, Massospora cicadina, which produces drug-like substances such as an amphetamine analogue, causing infected cicadas to be hypersexual, as well as causing infected male cicadas to allow themselves to be mounted by other males in order to infect them.
m1j0Y TIL General Mills founded Olive Garden and once owned toy brand Parker Brothers and clothing brands Eddie Bauer and Talbots
x6Z7 TIL Just after WWII, multiple short wave radio stations located around the world appeared. These stations transmit letters and numbers, presumably to spies and still operate today.
rL1w TIL that “Lego Star Wars the Video Game” contained the entire plot of Revenge of the sith despite being released a month before the movie’s premiere.