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TIL that The Three Stooges were the first to release a Hitler film parody. "You Natzy Spy!" (1940) was released months before Chaplin's "The Great Dictator".

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woyXM TIL that No Doubt kind of had a cameo on the Simpsons before they were famous. Eric Stefani left after recording Tragic Kingdom to work on The Simpsons, where he drew the band in the background of a shot. The album ended up being a hit so by the time the episode aired they actually were famous.
yR5V TIL that the pharmaceutical company, Gilead, developed a drug that can cure Hepatitis C which led to plummeting stock prices as fewer patients required the drug due to the fact that it worked so well.
wom6W TIL when Brian Lara broke the first-class cricket world record for highest individual score by scoring 501 runs, his sponsor, clothing company Joe Bloggs, was unable to release commemorative jeans because "501" was a Levi's trademark. They ended up making a "500 and One" series of t-shirts and caps.
XQP8 TIL that on the way to his inauguration, President Franklin Pierce’s only living child was crushed to death in front of him and his wife in a train derailment. Pierce descended into alcoholism, the First Lady into depression, and the country into violence.
NXwAb TIL:There is a rare celestial body in the universe called "interstellar visitors". These celestial bodies do not come from our solar system, but fly from other galaxies. So far, we have detected two interstellar visitors, 'Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2020.