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TIL that Spielberg returned to college in 2002 to finish his film degree. His final assignment was to submit a sample of filmmaking proficiency, he submitted Schindler’s List

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BrWae Today I Learned Gary Oldman unsuccessfully applied to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, which welcomed him to try again the following year, but advised him to find something else to do for a living. He has since won an Oscar, Screen Actors Guild Award and numerous other awards.
7BbX TIL that some older PCs would play Für Elise through their motherboard speakers to indicate hardware failure. Other tunes occasionally heard included “It’s a Small, Small World” and “Eye of the Tiger.”
lL17 TIL The Holocaust memorial in Berlin in coated with a special anti-graffiti chemical. The company that produced this chemical was the same company that produced Zyklon B during the war.
EK9d TIL that not one Justin Bieber single, song, or promotional single on which he was a lead singer or featured artist has ever reached a peak position of #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
pY1Yp TIL in Machiavelli's comedy "Belfagor arcidiavolo", a demon decides to investigate why humans arrive in hell constantly complaining about marriage life. He gets married, goes into debt, barely escapes his angry creditors, returns to hell defeated and vows to never visit the world of humans again.