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TIL Texas attorney general threatened international observers from OSCE with arrests and criminal charges if they were to monitor the 2012 elections in that state.

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LQN6r TIL A Canadian Institute of Technology installed sleep pods in its campus library so students can lie down for a proper sleep if they should need it. However staff sit about 15 feet away and nappers are under video surveillance to prevent more than solo sleepers
XEWgP TIL Kmart USA is down to its final 10 stores!
WkdY TIL The director of the Truman Show wanted to install a video camera in every theater and have the projectionist cut from the film to the video of the viewers in the cinema.
N78B6 TIL people who didn't wear masks during the 1918 flu pandemic were called 'mask slackers', and those enforcing the rules were armed, which led to gun fights and hundreds of arrests.
mbmv TIL During Ellen Burstyn’s monologue in Requiem of a Dream about how it feels to be old, Matthew Libatique accidentally let the camera drift off-target. The reason was because he had been crying during the take and fogged up the camera’s eyepiece. This was the take used in the final print.