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TIL “It’s A Wonderful Life” was classified as Communist Propaganda by the F.B.I. because it “deliberately maligned the upper class, attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters.”

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1MkW TIL That lobsters can be various colours due to the pigment astaxanthin, being blue or yellow after binding with some proteins. About 1 in 2 million lobsters are blue and 1 in 30 million are yellow. However, the rarest is a white lobster, with the chances of seeing one only being 1 in 100 million.
mxmyo TIL that new drivers in B.C., Canada have to display a sticker on their car with the letter "N" on it (for "New" Driver) for at least 18-24 months.
KOgl9 TIL Aunt Bethany in Christmas Vacation sounds familiar because she was the voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.
x6vw1 TIL Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig's last sentence was meticulously typed by his wife as she recited the alphabet and he told her when to stop but he didn't finish as he was interrupted and it concerned a "point of all points, which the Lord has truly revealed to me in my sleep"
6Zym TIL that Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics not for his work on the famous E=mcˆ2 equation or special relativity, but for his work on the photoelectric effect; an effect that forms the basis of photosynthesis.