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TIL : With Pather Panchali, Satyajit Ray, besides making his debut, was also the first person to use a teaser advertising campaign before it hit the theatres.

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akA9 TIL in 2013, scientists sequenced genome of a horse that had been kept frozen for the last 700,000 years in permafrost in at Thistle Creek, Yukon, Canada
gMNNA TIL Stoicism had a profound impact on Christianity, with some of the central concepts of Stoicism still being used in religious texts today, such as "virtue", "Spirit" and "conscience". Stoicism also invented the idea that sex is just within marriage, for unitive and procreative purposes only.
ax9L TIL During WWII, Major Hajime Fuji, a training instructor, presented his petition to serve as a kamikaze pilot written in blood; his wife drowned herself and their children so that he should have no conflicting ties.
d8QAQ TIL there are 3 types of fun: Type 1 fun is enjoyable while it’s happening. Type 2 fun is miserable while it’s happening, but fun in retrospect. Type 3 fun is not fun at all, not even in retrospect.
KYY4J TIL Thomas Jefferson's grandson was a Confederate general during the Civil War