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TIL Throughout the 1930s, Hollywood studios worked with Nazi Germany to self-censor and avoid certain topics and depictions in their movies in order to avoid being banned from the (then) lucrative German film market.

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ANABl TIL Idaho does not require employers to give employees any breaks for any reason.
p5dG TIL Sir James Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, gave the copyright of Peter Pan to the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital of London upon his death. Barrie’s only condition was that the hospital never disclose the income brought in from royalties.
nJBW TIL that in 1991, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad’s son killed 2 people while driving. He was only ticketed for improper lane usage & fined $15.
ndLB TIL Before being killed in a drive-by shooting, Tupac Shakur was set to audition for the role of Mace Windu in the Star Wars prequels.
6EXJ TIL the computer was not invented in the 1940’s. In the 1830’s Charles Babbage designed a mechanical, steam powered beast with a CPU, RAM, even a printer, that could do most of the things early electronic computers could. It was never built.