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TIL that there’s a religion called Kopimism - a religion of file sharers who believe that copying information is a sacred virtue. They use CTRL+C and CTRL+V as sacred symbols.

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VBnQk TIL Victor Fleming directed both The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind, and did both in the same year (1939).
pVe TIL that you would have to walk the full length of a football field just to burn off one plain M&M candy.
VMnKB TIL "Hit Me Baby One More Time" was written by a Swede who meant the chorus to mean "hit me up on the phone one more time" but mistranslated it
X076P TIL J.J. Thomson, Nobel prize winning physicist, had 6 of his students win a Nobel prize in physics, and 2 of his students win a Nobel prize in chemistry. Additionally, his son also won a Nobel prize in physics.
gMY54 TIL that during the filming of The Return of the Jedi, Jabba the Hutt was performed by as many as 7 crew members simultaneously, and was one of the more expensive practical effects in the original Star Wars Trilogy.