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TIL: In France, there is a law that movies cannot appear on streaming services until 3 YEARS after they've been shown in cinemas

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wLaLM TIL of Rhoda Abbott, the only woman to survive the foundering of the Titanic. A 39 yr-old divorcee traveling 3rd class with her teenage sons, she was able to climb aboard the swamped lifeboat Collapsible A as Titanic plunged. Her sons were lost.
6ZrJ TIL in Marvel Comics, Doctor Doom’s armor contains splinters of the True Cross in order to protect himself from vampires
M16a TIL that there is a flower that literally looks like a set of hooker’s lips and it’s actually called “Hooker’s Lips”
BgwYy TIL that ancient Greek mythology included Mnemosyne, the Goddess of Memory; traditionally, she has a pool of water named after her in the Underworld, as a counterpart to the Lethe- The River of Forgetfulness. Before reincarnating, souls could drink from the Mnemosyne to remember their past lives
amv0 TIL that since his death all VLC Media Player updates have been named after the works of the late great Terry Pratchett