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TIL Spy Kids is on the National Film Registry, being added in 2024

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QJ7md TIL: Lenovo is owned by the Chinese Government (30% shares) and no longer IBM (18.9% shares)
NX0Y1 TIL that the Portuguese Man-of-War is a colony of organisms not just one big scary jellyfish
ENPX TIL of the the Compromise of 1877, an unwritten deal that settled the controversial and disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. The deal gave ® Rutherford B. Hayes the last 20 electoral votes to win the election as long as he removed federal troops from the South
xVyx7 TIL that during the Watergate scandal, Martha Mitchel (then wife of Nixon's AG) was kidnapped, beaten and forcibly sedated by her husband's security detail to keep her from speaking to reporters
kMN1 TIL in 1985 a Soviet icebreaker rescued a large pod of beluga whales trapped by pack ice, leading them to safety by playing music to lure them out through the cleared channels.