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TIL The guy who designed the original Twitter’s logo only made about $3 off iStockPhoto

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vMNr TIL film composer John Williams is the second most Academy Award nominated person in history with 49 nominations, right after Walt Disney
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ydy8 TIL that locksmiths swear the Baldomeric Oath, an oath about professional ethics modeled after the Hippocratic oath, which was named after the 7th century Saint Baldomerus
R5BpQ TIL in 1933 there was an alleged conspiracy by wealthy businessmen to stage a coup against FDR and install a Marine Corps general as dictator
Lk44d TIL Project X was going to have a sequel called Project XX, with Warner Bros. even announcing Project XX's release date (Aug 19, 2016). However, Warner Brothers never released further details and instead quietly skipped the release date.