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TIL that the Bee Movie doesn’t have “The” in the title and is just “Bee Movie”

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woGx6 TIL about the Macintosh TV. This Mac was based on the Macintosh Performa 520 but with a black case and a TV tuner built in. It sold poorly, selling only around 10,000 units and was discontinued in Febuary 1994 less than 4 months after release. This was the first Mac to come in a black case.
O6Z7 TIL a Chernobyl fireman who claimed they didn’t know that the Chernobyl meltdown flames were radioactive, 20 years later said “Of course we knew! If we’d followed regulations, we would never have gone near the reactor. But it was a moral obligation – our duty. We were like kamikaze.”
QNoYk TIL classical music composer Chevalier de Saint-Georges, controversially known as "Black Mozart", was also a master athlete described by John Adams as "the most accomplished Man in Europe in Riding, Running, Shooting, Fencing, Dancing, Musick"
grA6W TIL Wild Horses ARE North American Natives
oRv6R TIL that Jimmy Page was told that his new band would be a disaster and "go down like a lead balloon." He changed the spelling of "lead" to "led" (so it wouldn't be mispronounced "leed") and changed "balloon" to "zeppelin", naming the band Led Zeppelin