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TIL A Yale student snuck a card for the fictional book, the Necronomicon, into the university library’s card catalog.

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9obM TIL Harvard chose “The Wire” as curriculum material for their course on urban inequality. Many other universities offer classes in various disciplines based on the TV series, ranging from law to sociology to film studies.
6E69Y TIL that the tornado in 'The Wizard of Oz' is just a 35 foot stocking blown by artificial wind and dirt held up by a "gantry" on a set - the gantry cost more than the whole anticipated budget for the entire scene; $218,347.23 in todays money.
69RmX TIL that “costed” is not how you say how much something cost in the past. You just use “cost”.
GApAQ TIL the hollow stick on(most) lollipops is to prevent choking, allowing air to pass through it even if the stick is swallowed.
E8ed TIL The last prisoner of war from the Second World War to be repatriated was a Hungarian soldier who was taken prisoner by the Red Army in 1944, then discovered living in a Russian psychiatric hospital in 2000