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TIL Charlie Chaplin spent the last two decades of his career concentrating on re-editing and scoring his old films for re-release, along with securing their ownership and distribution rights.

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X0pWQ TIL Red fox, (Vulpes vulpes) has the largest natural distribution of any land mammal except human beings
MeYv7 TIL the bass line in "Rapper's Delight" is not a direct sample of Chic's "Good Times"- rather, the producer paid a 17-year old bassist to play the same line for 15 minutes straight, with no mistakes.
D14BV TIL of Anton Ludwig August von Mackensen, a German Field Marshal who served in the Military during the Franco Prussian War, WW1 and WW2. He witnessed Germany when it was the Kingdom of Prussia, the German Empire, Weimar Republic Germany, Nazi Germany and the Federal Republic of Germany.
E1Gap TIL that the first Apple logo isn’t what you would think. Originally, it featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting beneath a tree, with an apple about to fall on his head. which read “Newton…A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought…alone”.
WBO8 TIL there is a theory which says that the evolutionary path that lead to intelligent life was caused by apes that started eating magic mushrooms.