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TIL in 1976 a film called "All This and World War II" was released, which included a soundtrack of Beatles covers by various artists such as Peter Gabriel, Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne, Elton John, David Essex, Leo Sayer, the Bee Gees, Frankie Laine, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and Tina Turner.

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9Yx5p TIL farmers only need to leave a door open for five minutes for the farm to qualify as "free-range". Apart from the "open door", no other criteria for environmental quality, number of birds, or space per bird, are defined.
P1E1E TIL that Sony ran a poster campaign for the PSP at a Manchester tram platform that said "Take a running jump here" and had to remove it due to concerns it might encourage suicide
WALB TIL that ‘art’ used to be an Olympic sport. Artists were award gold, silver and bronze medals for architecture, painting, sculpture, music and literature across multiple Summer Olympics in the early 20th Century. The 'arts’ were dropped from the Games because they drew too many professional artists.
PYk5J TIL Edward Doisy received the Nobel in Medicine for discovery of vitamin K with Henrik Dam. He also competed with Adolf Butenandt in the discovery of estrone in 1930. They discovered the substance independently, but only Butenandt was awarded the Chemistry Nobel
W7dkN TIL the original endowment for the Smithsonian was lost due to being invested in bad treasury bonds issued by Arkansas, and had to be restored with new funds from Congress with interest. It was the equivalent to $220 million dollars adjusted for inflation and GDP.