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TIL The subtitle for the 1880 novel Ben Hur is A Tale of the Christ. The movie poster for the 1959 film had "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents A Tale of the Christ".

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69NO8 TIL that small dog breeds with stubby legs, such as Dachshunds, Corgis, Pekinese and Basset Hounds, are actually suffering from a form of dwarfism
0EZ1 TIL that the Veronica Mars film raised $5M via Kickstarter, but grossed only $3M worldwide at the box office, meaning fans were willing to pay more for the film to be made than they were to watch it in theaters.
Wko0A TIL: Jim Lovell, a carrier-based pilot facing instrument failure, used the luminescent wake of the aircraft carrier to locate the ship. He would later command the Apollo 13 mission.
Br1Nr TIL there is currently no known way to use speech recognition successfully on a whispering person, as the characteristic spectral range needed to detect syllables and words is not given through the total absence of tone
wLlJ6 TIL that Denmark held a general election during German occupation in 1943. In a disappointing result for the occupiers, the Danish Nazi Party won just 2.1% of the vote.