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TIL Looney Tunes was created to promote WB’s music catalog in the 1930’s. That’s why it’s “Tunes” and not “Toons”

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8aD94 TIL Harriet Tubman suffered a violent head injury as a child causing her to frequently slip into into sleep like states. These would produce vivid dreamlike hallucinations that Tubman interpreted as messages from god, to devote her life to freeing southern slaves through the Underground Railroad.
69WrY TIL More than 3 Million people were killed during the 1943 Bengal famine in India and Churchill's policies were to blame for this
nd4r TIL the main actor of The Gods Must Be Crazy was only paid $300, even though the film made over $60 million
5YlJk TIL that Olivia de Haviland, an actress who starred in Gone With The Wind and dated Howard Hughes, is still alive at age 101.
NXM4Q TIL Sherlock Holmes was inspired by a real person, Doyle based the character of Sherlock Holmes at least in part on Dr. Joseph Bell, a surgeon and professor at Edinburgh’s Royal College of Surgeons.