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TIL "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh spent millions of dollars over seven years quietly bankrolling efforts to free the West Memphis 3, three Arkansas men who supporters say were wrongly convicted of the murders of three children.

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jNr7X TIL Kenan Thompson refused to dress in drag on "Saturday Night Live" until the show hired a black woman.
awyQL TIL: The three horizontal black lines on the side of a school bus are there for emergency responders. In an emergency where the doors and windows can't be opened and they need to cut into the bus, the lines show the positions of the floor boards, the bottom of the seats, and the top of the seats.
16JLd TIL while filming the Christmas movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946), the original plan for the ending was to have the characters sing Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” It was later changed to “Aude Lang Syne.”
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