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TIL: The characters in the animated series Archer are modeled after real people.

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KOpGB TIL that every ten years, the artificial lake Osiglia, in Italy, is drained to maintain the dam and the old medieval village is visible to all.
eaE5 TIL in Japanese mythology, if an umbrella is left alone long enough it becomes a one-eyed, one-legged hopping demon known as Kasa-Obake
KO616 TIL “Monster Mash” used low-budget sound effects for the recording: the sound of a coffin opening was made by a rusty nail being pulled out of a board; the sound of a cauldron bubbling was water being bubbled through a straw, and the chains rattling were simply chains being dropped on a tile floor.
9yNm TIL that “pixel” was originally short for the term “picture element”.
kJ8ZW TIL that the movie "The Last Time I Saw Paris" accidentally entered the public domain 10 years early because its copyright notice used Roman numerals improperly: it came out in 1954 (MCMLIV), but there was an extra X in the notice, so it was mistakenly assumed that it came out in 1944 (MCMXLIV).