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TIL George A. Romero, legendary horror director of Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, got his start directing short films for Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

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WkW4 TIL that Rolling Stones drummer, Charlie Watts, was sleeping one day, when Mick Jagger phoned drunk to Watts’ hotel room asking where was his drummer. Watts got up, suited-up, went to Jagger’s room, punched him, and then replied: “Don’t ever call me your drummer again. You’re my fucking singer!”
N7PWQ TIL North-Korea has its own operating system called "Red Star OS" based on Linux. The administrator user is disabled, media files copied from the OS are watermarked with the hard drive's serial number and the "virus scanner" automatically deletes censored files.
5YBdn TIL about the "hijacking" of the oil tanker, Brillante Virtuoso in the Gulf of Aden in 2011. There pirate attack left the ship heavily damaged and it was scrapped. The owner attempted a $100 mil insurance claim, one of the primary inspectors was killed in a car bomb, others were harassed.
GYLWJ TIL Saran Wrap isn't as "clingy" is because it used to have a toxic chemical in it and they voluntarily removed it, costing them almost half their market share
kJAEB TIL that Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, planned for the character of Plankton to only appear in a few episodes, but Plankton's voice actor, Doug Lawrence, loved Plankton so much that he wrote his own ideas for the character, and Plankton became a major character.