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TIL that Marlon Brando, who was a tech geek and an ace at ‘90s photoshop, loved to jokingly photoshop photos of his friends in random places. Brando was an early user of CoSa After Effects, the post-production program used for green screen and other effects work, which was eventually sold to Adobe.

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5KNR TIL Agatha Christie’s novel “Elephants Can Remember” reveals distinct signs of Alzheimer’s onset, e.g., 20% fewer words or ⅕ of her vocabulary lost; 6 times more use of nonspecific words such as “thing”, and a sharp drop in “idea density”. That novel’s last line is “Maybe it’s OK not to remember.”.
kOkl7 TIL 1.3 Million Indians served in WW1, 1 in 6 of the British forces. In return, the British had insincerely promised to deliver progressive self-rule to India at the end of the war. Something Akin to Canada and South Africa. But the British broke their word.
JYwl1 TIL that Theodore Roosevelt was shot before a speech in Milwaukee and refused to have medical treatment until he delivered his 90 minute speech, in which he showed off the bullet wound to the crowd
b90Np TIL since 2018, the Circus Roncalli in Germany has entirely eliminated the use of live animals. Using 11 projectors, holographic acts replicate traditional circus fare, like a performing elephant, an ethereal ring of horses galloping around, even a huge goldfish hovering in the middle of the arena.
pY1Kb TIL that Charles Bukowski’s father was frequently abusive, both physically and mentally. He later told an interviewer that his father beat him with a razor strop three times a week from the ages of 6 to 11 years. He says that it helped his writing, as he came to understand undeserved pain.