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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.

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7JRO TIL that last year astronauts in the International Space Station found plankton OUTSIDE one of its windows. They have no explanation for it.
moOR TIL that 74% of Netflix subscribers would rather cancel their subscription than see ads.
OGg47 TIL the given name Mallory comes from the French nickname "Malheure" which means "unlucky and unfortunate".
9ww0r Today I learned of Apsethus, who trained parrots to tell people he was a god who caged them. He was burned to death upon hearing of his caging of parrots.
Ryjl TIL that deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon have plummeted 80% in the last decade