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TIL Marina Abramović performed The Artist Is Present, a 736-hour and 30-minute static, silent piece, in which she sat immobile in the museum's atrium across from 1,545 sitters, including Klaus Biesenbach, James Franco, Lou Reed, Alan Rickman, Jemima Kirke, Jennifer Carpenter and Björk

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J1Nb1 TIL Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer attempted to erase Gaslight (1940) from existence as to prevent it from competing with their remake of Gaslight when it eventually released in 1944.
vBnD TIL In the Dark ages up to the 1800s Animals were sentenced for human crimes. Dogs, pigs, cows, rats and even flies and caterpillars were arraigned in court on charges ranging from murder to obscenity.
5YvBn TIL about The Breast Tax which was a tax imposed on the lower caste and untouchable Hindu women by the Kingdom of Tranvancore (in present-day Kerala state of India) if they wanted to cover their breasts in public, until 1924.
gML5W TIL a TV station in Atlanta, Georgia once broadcast a story on a new kind of Krispy Kreme donut. The caption in the image behind the on-air reporter read, "So good you'll suck dick."
yQlpM TIL that the first named author in history was a woman named Enheduanna from the Sumerian city state of Ur (modern Iraq) in the 23rd century BCE. As a high priestess, she wrote hymns and poems that were in circulation for hundreds of years after her death.