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TIL that the myth of the "Seven Sisters" told throughout the world is believed to have originated over 100,000 years ago, due to the movements of the constellation that it is based on.

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OG8gX TIL the 1922 film Nosferatu was such a blatant rip off of Bram Stoker's Dracula that Bram's widow won a lawsuit demanding all copies of the film be destroyed. A single copy found its way to America, where Dracula was in the public domain due to copyright error, allowing the film to survive.
VMrep TIL Abraham Lincoln was unpopular among both the north and the south before he died.
9Y587 TIL during a screening of Blue Velvet in Chicago a man fainted and had to have his pacemaker changed. Upon completion, he returned to the cinema to see the movie's ending
Z8v64 TIL there are an estimated 40 million slaves in the World today. For context, the trans-Atlantic slave trade was responsible for 12 million slaves over 400 years.
m11wo TIL Nintendo's Mario was created with a mustache to remove the need to animate his mouth and was labeled Italian because mustaches were attributed to Italians at the time.