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TIL that the music from the anti piracy ad on DVDs was actually stolen

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OoWV7 TIL of Rostilov Romanov, a Russian artist and prince who is descended from the Romanov family that was assassinated during the Russian revolution in 1918. It is a common misconception that the line died with them. His wife and friends refer to him as “the artist formally known as Prince”.
awNQ0 TIL that for the last 100 years, Minnesota's been refusing requests from Virginia to return a captured Confederate Battle flag; in 2000 Gov. Jesse Ventura responded “Why? We won. ... We took it. That makes it our heritage.”
kJWQE TiL that while primary endosymbiosis, which originated the plastids and the mitochondria, happened only once, secondary endosymbiosis happened several types, giving rise to many different, unrelated groups of algae that got their plastids by engulfing other eukaryotes that had engulfed bacteria!
yQA0e TIL: One of the more popular early American wiping objects was the dried corn cob
GxOj TIL the only way the BBC could record its live broadcasts in the 1950s was to point a film camera at a television. Because of this, the only known recording of the landmark sci-fi serial “The Quatermass Experiment” features an insect walking across the screen.