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TIL 75% of all Silent Films Have Been Lost

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7rg7r TIL of Ryan M. Kelly who found out he won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of the Charlottesville's attack on the same day he quit his job as a photo journalist to go work for a brewery.
O656 TIL the war hero Ewan McGregor portrayed in Black Hawk Down is a convicted child molester
xVPro TIL that Harry Conick Jr. once played one bar of a solo song in 5/4 timing so that the unsuspecting audience's clapping would be offset to beats 2 and 4 instead of 1 and 3, unbeknownst to them
R7ka TIL An Oregon teacher was criticized after licking the wounds on a track team member’s knee, a football player’s arm, and another high school student’s hand. A public health officer commented, “…my very strong recommendation is that you confine yourself to licking your own wounds.”
Br6KL TIL In 1974, a protest group of traditional country artists was formed in Nashville as a result of Olivia Newton-John, a foreigner from Australia, winning the Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year award claiming her foray into country music as "un-American"