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TIL that movies distributed for cinemas are not discs or film, but rather HDDs

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waOY TIL - There’s a town in the Oklahoma panhandle named “Hooker” and its slogan is “it’s a location, not a vocation”.
x451 TIL that in 1985 the French President authorised a state-sponsored terror attack on New Zealand soil, killing a Dutch citizen.
dD9BE TIL that when cemetery workers were exhuming John Belushi's grave, the bottom of the casket gave out due to water damage, causing his corpse to fall back into the grave.
GAobN TIL Throughout much of the late 20th century before internet porn, erotic thrillers were a prominent film genre spawning a cottage industry for at the time new home video markets. Part of the reason for popularity was Blockbuster did not stock unrated films, but they did have erotic thrillers.
9YJZD TIL of the ninth-century monk Ratramnus, who wrote a letter on the subject of whether or not the Cynocephaly, dog-headed men, should be considered human or beasts. The letter describes many human-like customs of Cynocephaly, including farming, and Ratramnus makes the case for their humanity.