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TIL 60% of apps in the Apple App Store have never ever been downloaded

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l75pA TIL that there is a semi-official conservative sequel/ prequel to the 1969 classic film "Easy Rider" titled "Easy Rider: The Ride Back". It is semi-official because although none of the original cast or crew were involved, the director, Phil Pitzer, legally purchased the Easy Rider ip.
NXVmP TIL about Miss Belvedere, a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere that Tulsa, Oklahoma buried in a vault beneath the lawn of the city courthouse as a time capsule to be opened in 2007. It contained among other things a lady's purse including bobby pins, tranquilizers, cigarettes, and an unpaid parking ticket.
E1Jjd TIL there was a press event from 2001 where over twenty military, intelligence, government and scientific witnesses came forward and discovered at least 57 extraterrestrial species.
kJlE5 TIL the BBC programme "The Black and White Minstrel Show," with white actors performing in blackface, aired for 20 years ending in 1978. Once, in 1967, as an experiment, the network aired a version where black actors performed in whiteface.
1LgV TIL forgotten smallpox vials were found in a cardboard box in Maryland in 2014, over 30 years after its eradication