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TIL that Hanna Barbera tabled a 1976 proposal to introduce a black version of the Flintstones.

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QQLM TIL two million citizens of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia held hands in 1989, forming a 600 km (370 mi) human chain to protest against Soviet occupation. The Soviet Union threatened “catastrophic consequences”, but ended up peacefully giving the states their freedom.
rN6xx TIL that Melbourne, Australia has the largest Greek speaking population in the world outside of Greece and Cyprus. Melbourne is sometimes referred to as Greece’s ‘third city’ after Athens and Thessaloniki.
e077g TIL Cough drops used to be made with morphine and heroin.
ZZQY TIL that Paul Thomas Anderson dropped out from the NYU’s film program beacuse he handed in some of Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet’s work as his own and got it graded a “C”.
7rbXP TIL of Thomas McKeller, who - at 26 - became the primary muse and lover of one of America's most prolific artists, John Singer Sargent. An African-American, McKeller was recreated solely as white figures in Sargent's public works - including the famed ceiling murals at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.