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grY4A TIL there's another Y2K in 2038, Y2K38, when systems using 32-bit integers in time-sensitive/measured processes will suffer fatal errors unless updated to 64-bit.
jNEnR TIL COPS was created in 1989 after the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike negatively impacted the entertainment industry and FOX needed a new material that wouldn't require union writers
nened TIL that a "nickelodeon" was an early type of small movie theater that cost a nickel
OoA81 TIL the Jewish-American mafia played of the name of the Sicilian mafia "Cosa Nostra" ("Our thing") by dubbing themselves "Kosher Nostra"
j6yDa TIL that Wajda's classic "Ziemia obiecana"/"Promised Land" was supposed to be distributed in USA, but according to Wajda distributors there bought the rights only to keep the film out of cinemas. Scorsese's 2013 Festival described it as "one of the most important critiques of predatory capitalism".