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TIL the 1963 movie Charade, starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, entered the public domain immediately upon release due to Universal Pictures failing to actually include the word "Copyright" (or "©") in the copyright notice

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Yo1v TIL that Cleopatra’s family tree was full of inbreeding, including three marriages between an uncle & niece and three between siblings. As a result, some of her ancestors were the same person. For instance, her mother was her father’s niece and thus not only her mother but also her first cousin.
VM5xG TIL that when a fire broke out in a Brooklyn theater in 1876 there was only one stairwell accessible by the top floor guests which led to a stampede and jammed the exit. 278 of the 1,000 guests died which led to an overhaul of NYC's fire codes and theater regulations.
6956W TIL the choir that comes in towards the end of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under the Bridge" was made up of guitarist John Frusciante's mother and her friends from church, none of whom were professional singers.
xVywg TIL Tyler Perry almost committed suicide to be rid of his father's beatings, changed his name so he wouldn't be associated with his father. Then, after his mother died, Tyler got a paternity test which proved, the man who raised him wasn't his biological father.
e08kL TIL Not only do bats make high-pitched sounds for echolocation, many bat species also sing. A team of scientists that analyzed one species’ song translated it as a sequence that opens with a hello, then a gender identification, then some geographic information, & then a "let's talk" section.