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TIL there was an antagonist on Courage the Cowardly Dog based off of Quentin Tarantino named “Benton Tarantella”.

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J1mXk TIL that Thomas Dolby ideated & storyboarded the music video for his 80s hit “She Blinded Me With Science” BEFORE he wrote the song; after writing the song to fit his storyboards, he subsequently directed its music video.
wolyM TIL Thomas Edison created the first ever film studio, "The black maria", which could rotate so that it could always catch the best lighting. There, they shot "The kiss" (1898) which contained the first on-screen kiss, which caused a demand for the first ever film industry censorship.
bXL9 TIL in 1983 a 61 Year Old Farmer Won a 544 mile endurance race because he ran throughout the night while the younger ‘professional’ athletes slept.
kJbP4 TIL of the "Wagon Tragedy" (1921), where 67 Indian prisoners being transported under British Raj authority were accidentally suffocated to death after being packed into a sealed, windowless railway goods wagon
Oo94X TIL that about 85 percent of hospitals still use pagers because hospitals can be dead zones for cell service. In some hospital areas, the walls are built to keep X-rays from penetrating, but those heavy-duty designs also make it hard for a cell phone signal to make it through but not pagers.