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TIL that the first “men’s rights movement” dates to the 1920s; under the slogan of “equal rights for men”, they opposed alimony, child support, and “the favoritism of the authorities in favor of women”

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Me1a8 TIL that the soundtrack for the animated movie ‘Akira’ was composed before it was animated. The animation crew created scenes in time with the music, rather than the other way around.
Owja TIL Scotland Yard uses a national computer system developed for major crime inquiries by all British forces, called Home Office Large Major Enquiry System, which is a backronym for HOLMES, in honor of Sherlock Holmes
xVw17 TIL that despite 12 Angry Men being a great film, actions of Juror 8 conducting outside research on the knife and speculating about women's vision would have led to a mistrial by the letter of the law.
x6jro TIL Shops often play music with a slower tempo to encourage customers to move more slowly through the store, thus spending more time looking at products and increasing the likelihood of making a purchase.
OrP4 TIL Stephen Wolfram, creator of WolframAlpha, has kept every keystroke he has typed and every email for roughly the past 20 years in the hopes that he will be able to create an artificial intelligent program that will automatically respond to his emails.