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TIL that Stellen Skarsgard suffered a stroke in 2022, which affected his memory. Because of this, he had been forced to wear an earpiece with his assistant feeding him his lines for his recent films.

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j61rQ TIL in a Florida courtroom an exotic dancer on trial for violating an anti-nudity ordinance wore her outfit and bent over for the judge to determine if he could see anything indecent; she was found not guilty, but a courtroom photo was published in Playboy
kOldm TIL there are only six full-time 'skywriters' left in the world. Skywriters are those who use aircraft to expel special smoke during flight in patterns.
woj96 TIL about the Family Viewing Hour, a 1975 FCC policy that TV networks in the USA had to air "family-friendly" programming during the first hour of prime-time. The policy was abandoned in 1977 following a ruling by a federal court that it violated the First Amendment.
p8pxe TIL Silent-era film director F. W. Murnau (1888 - 1931, director of Nosferatu) had his grave robbed in 2015. His skull was removed and candle wax found in the grave suggests an occult ritual was performed. The crime is unsolved and his skull remains missing.
vaOr TIL that strawberries are not berries, but bananas are.