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TIL that The Shawshank Redemption initially bombed at the box office.

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b68vp TIL that during the Habsburg monarchy, belief in vampires was so widespread that Empress Maria Theresa sent her personal physician Gerard van Swieten to officially investigate. He concluded that vampires did not exist, leading her to specifically outlaw all forms of "anti-vampire" corpse desecration
Z54p TIL Myanmar officially bans the colors red and yellow from movies, for no clear reason.
a8BQb TIL that Rx, used as shorthand for prescription is actually an abbreviation for the Latin word recipere.
a87o9 TIL that since 1976, the New York Yankees have maintained a strict appearance policy that states: “All players, coaches and male executives are forbidden to display any facial hair other than mustaches, and scalp hair may not be grown below the collar. Long sideburns and muttonchops are not banned.”
4J6w TIL during the Battle of the Bulge, American MPs trying to uncover German infiltrators would ask soldiers questions that every American should know. General Omar Bradley was briefly detained after he “incorrectly” identified Springfield as the capital of Illinois. The MP thought it was Chicago.