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TIL Brooke Shields was only 14 when "The Blue Lagoon" was filmed

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dO5r TIL That Scottish soldier Gregor MacGregor claimed he was made the leader of a country in Latin America which did not exist and then proceeded to earn himself a fortune by selling land and government bonds of said fictitious country to wealthy British and French investors.
LQVdV TIL that gravitational waves have a frequency conveniently within the range of human hearing. This is the sound of two black holes spiraling into one another, echoing through the universe for billions of years
woXG8 TIL that from 1915 to 1952, film was not protected under the First Amendment, because the Supreme Court (voting 9-0) saw film as "a business, pure and simple, originated and conducted for profit" and therefore subject to government censorship, resulting in the strict "Hays Code" in 1934
GYpDJ TIL that, due to ADA requirements, elevator chimes must sound once when it's going up, or twice if it's going down. This is to assist those who are unable to see.
8bV TIL that “preposterous” is essentially Latin for “ass-backwards”