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TIL Night of the Living Dead is in the public domain due to a failure to register its copyright

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4m5o TIL that the last US President to speak a foreign language fluently was FDR
x68E5 TIL only the Special Editions of the original Star Wars trilogy were given to the National Film Registry despite the Library of Congress wanting the originals because George Lucas hates those versions. In fact, he had delayed in handing the Registry A New Hope until the Special Edition was made.
a5E9 TIL NASA was hesitant to send women into space because they weren’t sure how their periods would affect their performance - “it was theorized that a woman could be bleed to death in micro gravity”
PYrbE TIL Homer Simpson is in The Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.
awgjo TIL about "Stolpersteine" (german for stumbling stones) which are small cobblestones with the names and fates of Nazi Victims. They are placed all over Europe in front of the last free home the victim had before deportation. Over 70,000 have been placed so far.