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TIL that the The Three Stooges were the first in Hollywood to criticize and mock Adolf Hitler on film with their short, ‘You Nazty Spy’

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yVYBX TIL that James Bedford is the first person to have his body cryopreserved in 1967 and it is still in storage.
mmKY TIL No one knows where the word “dog” originally came from. Appearing without cognates in Old English, it displaced the more common “hound” within 400 years and went on to find its way into 7 other European languages.
kO5BB TIL That All Dinosaurs May Have Been Warm-Blooded
0WNN TIL in 2008 a Berwyn Heights Mayor was subjected to a No-Knock raid, where both of his dogs were killed and he was questioned for several hours just wearing underwear because Prince George’s County Police didn’t believe he was the Mayor.
vPpeB TIL about The Lady Killer, which was the biggest box office bomb ever in Indian Cinema. It had a budget of 45 crore rupees (53M USD) and grossed only 70000 rupees (8.3k USD