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TIL Medical Doctors used to advertise and promote cigarettes

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GdNE TIL the Outer Space Treaty, signed by all major space faring nations, prohibits claiming territory in space or on celestial bodies. Space is considered “the shared heritage of mankind”
P1ZYG TIL in Red Heat (1988), a Larry Fishburne is credited in the opening titles. This is Laurence Fishburne who opted to use his full first name for his role as Ike Turner in What’s Love Got to Do with It in 1994
5VNyR TIL that in 1964, performance artist Dorothy Podber asked to “shoot” Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe paintings. Believing she wanted to photograph them, Warhol agreed - until she drew a gun and fired. One damaged “Shot Marilyn” sold in 2022 for $195M, a 20th-century art auction record.
mdPM TIL that it is the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web, happy birthday internet
VyYp TIL there was a 1700s politician named John Strange, and his epitaph reads, “Here lies an honest lawyer, and that is Strange.”