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TIL that the National Endowment for the Arts has a smaller budget than the Pentagon’s marching band

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MBp0 TIL the original Mad Max (1979) movie was dubbed from Australian to American for US audiences.
54MR TIL due to Bob Barker’s animal rights activism any episode of the Price is Right featuring a fur or fur coat as a prize was cut from syndication
yG0a TIL Princess Diana is buried in an unmarked grave on an island that has metal plates just below its surface, to prevent grave robbery.
E14VP TIL that the University of Oregon's "O" hand sign is equivalent in American Sign Language to screaming "Vagina"
oB0ME TIL that it's impossible to program truly random sequences, due to all software being completely deterministic, which results in all pseudorandom sequences ultimately being recursive