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TIL that Night of the Living Dead was entered into the public domain because the original distributor forgot to place a copyright notification in the film.

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K95G TIL that Christopher Mintz-Plasse auditioned for the role of Fogell aka “McLovin” for movie Superbad using a head shot from his camera phone… and that his mom had to be on set during his sex scene because he was only 17 at the time.
bxlp TIL two high school students rode their horses to school on ‘no vehicles to school day’, and were suspended
XXjQ TIL: The original GTA game disc for Playstation, when placed in a CD player, would play the game soundtrack.
e0JNb TIL the Levi Straus was not the inventor of Denim jeans but partnered with Jacob Davis after Davis approached him to fund the patent. Jacob Davis devised the riveting of the pants independent of Straus and also came up with the double orange threaded stitch design.
9YPXG TIL that at the Hoover dam construction the first worker death was that of J. G. Tierney and the last death was that of his son Patrick Tierney which came 14 years after the death of his father