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TIL that the 1998 film “You’ve Got Mail” was originally titled “You Have Mail” - but after a consultant hired by Warner Brothers found out that AOL hadn’t trademarked their iconic "You’ve Got Mail!" greeting, the film’s title was changed to the one we know today.

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78MXZ TIL in 2007, a woman successfully appealed her case after being sentenced for breastfeeding her infant while driving on the Ohio Turnpike because her car was registered in Michigan and the judge ruled that the state law forbidding breastfeeding while driving only applied to cars registered in Ohio.
P1WJV TIL that Peter Jackson directed over 20,000 cricket fans at a game to create the sound of the Uruk-hai army in the Battle of Helm's Deep in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
N7MAE TIL that Jackie Chan, starred in a porn movie in 1975 during his early career struggle. Not only was he in a porn movie, but it remains to this day the only movie he has ever been involved with that doesn’t include a fight scene or a stunt sequence.
xDL7 TIL: In 1984, a young boy named Andy Smith wrote a letter to Ronald Reagan asking for federal funds to clean his bedroom after his mother called it a “disaster area.”
rRBm4 TIL the red-capped manakin (Ceratopipra mentalis) is found in the tropical moist lowland forests of Central America. The bird is probably best known for the male's highly unusual and dazzling courting ritual (see video) whereby he shuffles rapidly backwards across a branch akin to a speedy moonwalk.