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TIL The Blues Brothers movie was not available in predominately white neighborhoods, for Mann Theaters. They didn’t think the movie would be successful with white audiences.

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6E4dY TIL The Romans built a lighthouse in Spain in the 1st century AD called "The Tower of Hercules." It is still intact and in use today, almost 2,000 years later.
5YMVQ TIL the first female American astronaut Sally Ride was a respected astrophysicist and a top athlete. However, before her flight, she fielded questions such as "Will the flight affect your reproductive organs?", "Do you weep when things go wrong?" and "Will you become a mother?" from the US media.
OoRe TIL that there is a mathematical formula that when graphed, produces an image of the formula itself
5Gwr TIL of a woman whose skin grew around a toilet seat she had ben sitting on for 2 years. Her boyfriend gave her food and water until calling authorities to say there was “something wrong” with his girlfriend. Her legs had atrophied and she had to be removed with the seat.
p8LJe TIL the word rooster was coined by English colonial protestants in the 1700s as an alternative to the word cock, in order to avoid the vulgar connotations. Until relatively recent times, this was primarily an Americanism, with most of the English speaking world still using cock for a male chicken.