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TIL "E.T. the Extraterrestrial" was rejected by Columbia Pictures whose chairman called it "a wimpy Walt Disney movie"

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5VaPr TIL about the 1926 Baumes law, a New York statute where anyone convicted of more than three separate felonies would automatically receive life imprisonment, without regard to any extenuating circumstances. By 1930, 23 U.S. states adopted similar laws. Prison riots in NY led to reforms soon after.
R5M51 TIL Beginning in early 1942, the Canadian government detained and dispossessed more than 90 percent of Japanese Canadians, some 21,000 people, living in British Columbia. They were detained under the War Measures Act and were interned for the rest of the Second World War.
m18ap TIL that sealed/boxed breakfast cereals are still considered safe for consumption up to 8 months after their best before date.
b9oL9 TIL of Fannie Quigley—a five-foot-tall frontierswoman who spent nearly 40 years prospecting in a remote Alaskan region in the 1890s. She was defined as an all-in-one miner, hunter, brewer, and cook who used mine shafts as a beer fridge and shot bears to get lard for pie crusts.
e0nP4 TIL There is a strip club in Canada that doubles as a church on Sunday