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TIL last year more people planned to shop on Black Friday than voted in the presidential election

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0wwWM TIL of Christmas Creep, a phenomenon where merchants take advantage of Christmas shopping well before Black Friday
6MvJ TIL that during the filming of Taxi Driver, De Niro asked Cybill Shepherd out on a date. She turned him down, and he did not speak to her, except in character, for the rest of the filming. She later said that she regretted turning him down.
P1N8n TIL that HMV stands for "His Masters Voice' and is named after a painting of the same name
yldX TIL While shooting the blues brothers movie, They had a budget for cocaine.
0wLx1 TIL, Saint Edith Stein was a Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism. In 1942, she became a prisoner of the Nazis. A dutch official offered her escape from Auschwitz but she refused, preferring to "share in the fate of her brothers and sisters".