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TIL Mickey Mouse becomes public domain on January 1, 2024.

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xBpD TIL the world’s first fully-painted, feature-length film is an animated movie about the life of Vincent van Gogh made up of 56,800 stop-motion paintings. Years in the making, it is scheduled to open this summer on the 125th anniversary of his death.
YpDbZ TIL. That during the making of rush hour 2 the secret service confiscated $100m in prop money after filming due to it being so accurate that extras were able to spend it at local buisnesses.
1alJO TIL $30,000 in 1964 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $248,476.45 in 2019, a difference of $218,476.45 over 54 years. The 1964 inflation rate was 1.31%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index, today's prices in 2019 are 728.25% higher than average prices in 1964
J1oQ TIL The Hardy Boys was ghost-written by several people over the years, some of whom were paid as little as $75 per book
yOMv TIL While filming The African Queen (1950) in the Congo,everybody on the crew including Katherine Hepburn, became extremely ill with dysentery from drinking the water. Everybody that is except for Humphrey Bogart, who only drank whiskey