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TIL in 2024(today) steam boat willie got released to the public domain

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yxJJ TIL Alfred Hitchcock once bet a prop man a week’s salary to spend the night chained up in a movie studio, giving him a beaker of brandy to get him through the night. It was laced with strong laxatives. The following morning, the film crew found the poor man crying in a puddle of his own feces.
696nZ TIL Obituary writers have their own awards, they're called The Grimmys.
R7g8l TIL a dam in the Congo River would generate 40,000 MW of power (equivalent to 20 large nuclear power stations), it would supply 40% of Africa with electricity, and it would produce twice as much power as the Three Gorges dam in China
XEGEQ TIL that Sergei Krikalev, the last Soviet Cosmonaut holds the record of most time dilation experienced by a human, having gained 22.68 seconds on his journeys to space
nWokY TIL that the father from seventh heaven stopped acting because he was exposed as being a predator