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TIL many medical experts have cited Memento (2000) as featuring one of the most realistic & accurate depictions of anterograde amnesia. And in 2017, it became the first narrative feature film from the 2000s to be selected by the US Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry.

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kDV5 TIL that a St. Bernard named Bamse was a mascot of the Royal Norwegian Navy during WWII and was known for breaking up fights amongst his crewmates. He once saved a young lieutenant commander who was being attacked by a man wielding a knife by pushing the assailant into the sea.
4kbdR TIL in the 1340s Oxford had an estimated murder rate of roughly 110 murders per 100,000 people, and in the 14th-century, London's murder rate varied between 36-52 per 100,000 people. By comparison, the 2020 murder rate for Britain was around 1 per 100,000 people.
Oo8AX TIL Warner Brothers shut down an entire publisher that they owned and destroyed almost all their stock, just to prevent Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman from publishing a book critical of US foreign policy
OJK6 TIL in 1918, during WW1, there was a flu pandemic that killed 50 to 100 million people, all across the world. To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, Britain, France, and the United States.
QGVd TIL that 75% of all sesame seeds grown in Mexico end up on McDonald’s hamburger buns