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TIL In the movie Memento, only the color sequences move backward and they start off as objective. The black and white sequences move forward and start off as subjective. It all converges at the end.

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JYrrB TIL about Raven Wilkinson, the first African-American ballet dancer of a major ballet company. In 1957, Raven was once barred from staying with her troupe when an Atlanta hotel owner asked her outright if she was black. Raven quit dancing for a time, only to return to a 27 year career at NYC Opera.
RV5j TIL that 156 years ago today, March 30 1858, the first wooden pencil with a rubber eraser was patented.
jNyZn TIL the Yiddish song "Bei Mir Bistu Shein" was a smash hit in Nazi Germany where pro-Nazi sympathizers in ale-houses often sang the tune under the mistaken impression that it was "a Goebbels-approved" ballad.
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6Ew8 TIL Marlon Brando denied his oscar for Best Actor in The Godfather in protest of the treatment of Native Americans in film.