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TIL that the film Some Like It Hot was made while the Hays Code was still operating and the film was one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"

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lo4va TIL that people with dementia think that stuff like a black doormat isn’t a doormat, but a deep hole in the floor. Due to these visual perception problems, people with dementia avoid stepping the doormat, and this is sometimes used to keep them from leaving their care facilites.
16n07 TIL that a school principal once made a student who'd gotten into trouble sit in the basement & read the U.S. Constitution as punishment. That student (who committed the Constitution to memory as a result) was Thurgood Marshall, who went on to become the first Black Supreme Court justice.
wmM7 TIL That astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell admitted that there are aliens, space craft, and contact between ET entities & the US Military has been going on for quite some time.
N79le TIL a study of attitudes toward age gap relationships found that they were frowned on, regardless of whether the man or the woman was older, but it was only when the man was older that the relationship was considered unequal.
RWoQ TIL that the smallest Hawaiian Island, widely known as The Forbidden Isle, is owned by two brothers that inherited from their great-great-grandmother who purchased it from King Kamehameha V for $10,000 in gold. They have turned down all offers to sell it including $1 billion from the U.S. government