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TIL Prince released an album with Dave Chapelle dressed him from his show on the cover.

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pbDQ TIL that when Napoleon returned to France, the King sent troops to stop and kill him. He stepped out in front of them & said “if there is one among you who wants to kill his general, his Emperor, here I am.” The royalists cheered wildly, “Long live the Emperor.” They joined his cause.
eoNn TIL that in 1954, the CIA launched a covert operation that overthrew the democratically-elected leader of Guatemala and replaced him with a right-wing authoritarian president, beginning over four decades of civil war and political repression
oBVbK TIL that Wes Craven placed a torn poster of Jaws in the background of The Hills Have Eyes to communicate to the audience that he believed his movie was much scarier. Later, Sam Raimi places a torn poster of The Hills Have Eyes in The Evil Dead to communicate the same message towards Craven
JYvj8 TIL of Afrihili, a constructed language designed in 1970 by Ghanaian historian K. A. Kumi Attobrah (Kumi Atɔbra) to be used as a lingua franca in all of Africa
OoB7 TIL some paleo-art historians believe that ancient cave art (Lascaux, Chauvet, etc) was meant to be viewed with flickering flames as lighting, giving the images an appearance of motion. This may have been humankind’s first ever cinematic “animation”.