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TIL “Night of the Living Dead” (1968) is part of the public domain because the distributor forgot to put a copyright notice on the title card

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OoZOg TIL that during WWI, there was limited supplies of cotton, so doctors used sphagnum moss for bandages. It can hold 22x its own weight in liquid and is a natural antiseptic.
RAv1 TIL the Pharaoh Sesostris defeated an army so easily that he built a vagina statue in their capital because they “fought like women”.
41pg TIL that Mozart disliked Adriana Ferrarese del Bene due to her arrogance. Knowing that she has the tendency to drop her chin on low notes and throw back her head on high notes, Così fan tutte was made just to make her head “bob like a chicken” onstage.
KYyka TIL that Champion U.S.A. invented hoodie in 1930s and marketed to laborers working in freezing temperatures in upstate New York
D16Vp TIL three of the four US presidents that were assassinated were killed in a 36-year time frame between 1865 and 1901.