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TIL That a Washington Post reviewer stated that the film Groundhog Day would never be placed in the Library of Congress. In 2006, it was added to the Library of Congress.

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r6Yo TIL that the flood scene was so wildly out of control in “Noah’s Ark” (1928) that three extras drowned and one lost a leg. Michael Curtiz - the director - is best known for his film “Casablanca”.
PvZV TIL of the Lavabit case, where the FBI used loopholes and exploits to force surveillance into a secure email service: “since the ‘inspection’ of the data was to be carried out by a machine, it was exempt from the normal search-and-seizure protections of the Fourth Amendment.”
PYO0g TIL in 1941, when a General asked Winston Churchill for more men to man Antiaircraft guns, Churchill replied "No, I can’t spare any men, you’ll have to use women." Mary Churchill (18), Winston Churchill's youngest daughter was among the first to join and rose to the rank of Junior Commander in 1944.
Bn1k TIL That an African grey parrot named Alex was the first, and only non-human animal, to ask an existential question: He asked what color he was.
d8Oor TIL The New York Times was one of the last newspapers to adopt color photography, with the first color photograph on the front page appearing on October 16, 1997.