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TIL Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn actively prevented the Three Stooges from discovering how popular they were. Despite their films being in extremely high demand, Cohn made them believe they were always in danger of cancelation so they wouldn't negotiate a better contract.

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EBaw TIL Netflix was forced to add subtitles to all their releases after the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) filed suit against them, citing their lack of closed captioning for streaming video as a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act .
lo4NK TIL on November 24, 2021, NASA launched its DART Mission to test propulsion technology designed to alter the course of an asteroid. The unmanned mission will intercept a moonlet of the asteroid Didymos in late September 2022, attempting to change the orbital period and thus change Didymos’ momentum
kOYxB TIL: In 2005 a company named SeaCode wanted to anchor a cruise ship three miles off the coast of Los Angeles, and fill it with up to 600 foreign programmers. The idea was to eliminate visa restrictions, and avoid U.S. labor laws.
KK6Q TIL of Ben Holmes, who faked his own death in 1980 to avoid being framed for arson, and was shot by his wife twenty years later when he confronted her for marrying another man.
epKQ6 TIL that in 1959, Claude Shannon, a mathematician from MIT demonstrated that machines can learn by experience using a mechanical mouse that can remember the previous paths that led to an artificial cheese in a maze.