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TIL That Magpies hold funerals for their dead

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EB5V TIL Warner Bros sued an Indian film called “Hari Putter” and lost. Two reasons the court ruled against Warner Brothers is because “Hari” is a Hindi word with religious connotations and “Puttar” is a Hindi word for son. The film was about a boy who was left “home alone.”
VBkp0 TIL Pinky and the Brain was inspired by the peculiar personalities of two WB producers, Eddie Fitzgerald and Tom Minton with interesting mannerisms that were incorporated into the characters
8QNL TIL that in 1995 the mayor of Bogotá, Columbia hired 420 mimes to mock drivers and pedestrians who behaved improperly and traffic accidents went down sharply afterwards
OGJAX TIL Harrison Ford and Sylvester Stallone are the only two actors in history to have starred in a box-office No. 1 film across six consecutive decades.
yVdAV TIL that each of the characters in Gilligan's Island represented one of the seven deadly sins