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TIL that John Williams' first movie score was 1958's "Daddy-O" of MST3K infamy

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QmYX TIL in the late 1990s, certain digital cameras used 3.5-inch floppy disks for picture storage
MeQy0 TIL that one individual, Beau Brummell, is largely responsible for the modern suit becoming the standard formal dress of western men for the next 200 years, replacing stockings
P14jg TIL there is a microbe, Mixotricha paradoxa ("paradoxical being with mixed-up hairs"), that has both cilia and flagella which protists are supposed to only have one of
R5Rx9 TIL in the 2006 documentary "This Film is Not Yet Rated" the director hired detectives to uncover the identities of the MPAA ratings & appeal boards, revealing that the former received very little training for rating films, and the latter consisted of studio/theater execs - as well as two clergymen
4W05 TIL one man is responsible for why women smoke, why we eat bacon & eggs at breakfast, why there’s fluoride in tap water, and why the US says it’s “spreading democracy” during war. He disliked the word “propaganda” so he coined the term “Public Relations”