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TIL that Director Spike Lee publicly criticized Clint Eastwood for lack of African-American performers in "Letters from Iwo Jima (Japanese POV of the war)," in which Eastwood retaliated, that the US military refused to let most "colored" servicemen on the front line.

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aZ8o TIL Air Conditioning was invented today (July 17) in 1902 by Willis Carrier
Y7XRZ TIL of Hannah Beswick; who was so afraid of being buried alive that she paid her physician to be kept above ground and be provisionally checked for signs of life after she died. She was finally buried 110 years after her death, being declared "irrevocably and unmistakably dead"
Z8omD TIL that Miserere Mei, Deus, a piece of choral music, was a closely guarded secret by the Catholic Church until Mozart went to see it and copied it down off of memory. Instead of being excommunicated like he should have been, Mozart received the Order of the Golden Spur, and it was published.
MelV8 TIL that there is a condition called fatal insomnia where people one day can no longer fall asleep, and eventually die due to this lack of sleep.
m1nkp TIL Since their invention, cars have killed an estimated 60–80 million people, injured at least 2 billion