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TIL Actress Bette Davis lived through four marriages, four strokes, breast cancer, and paralysis and died at the age of 81. Her epitaph reads “She did it the hard way.”

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eppVk TIL of the format called MovieCD (not to be confused with VideoCD or CD-Video) which was a way for full-length videos to be played on 16-Bit Windows PCs that couldn’t handle the MPEG codec.

Rd4Q TIL: Terrence Howard quit the Marvel Franchise after the producers planned to cut his salary by seven million dollars and give the money to Robert Downey Jr.

oRAJW TIL that ancient numeral systems like Egyptian hieratic, Greek, Hebrew, Roman, Chinese, and early Indian Brahmi were all non-positional decimal systems, requiring large numbers of symbols. The world’s earliest positional decimal system was the Chinese rod calculus.

0dJ1M TIL Charles Perrault's Cinderella was originally believed to be a sexual innuendo. The words verre (glass) and vair (fur) sound the same in French, which suggests the Prince "tried on the fur slipper of all the maidens in the land."

8aMMb TIL that the author of the original Bambi story wrote a fictional pornographic autobiography of a child prostitute in Vienna that was so period accurate that literature scholars debated for decades as to whether it was a true story for decades.