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TIL When Steven Spielberg first showed John Williams a cut of Schindler’s List, Williams was so moved that he told Spielberg he deserved a better composer. Spielberg replied, “I know, but they’re all dead.”

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oBXYK TIL that Varina Davis, wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis during the US Civil War, was marginalized due to her dark Welsh complexion, eventually became a Yankee, and accidentally became a good friend of the widow of Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
neeMb Short answer: Only if you believe it does
4kA4g TIL To promote his new movie Lost in Space (1998), Matt LeBlanc appeared on three different talk shows (Live with Regis & Kathie Lee, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien), which all aired on the same day.
kJ981 TIL all of Australia's 200 million wild rabbits are descended from a group of 13 European rabbits released in 1859 by Thomas Austin, a British settler released for him to hunt on his farm, by 1920 they peaked at 10 billion before a mass scale poisoning to prevent causing more environmental damage.
xVQ60 TIL that FIFA effectively banned women's football/soccer on an international scale for 50 years (1921-1971) by outlawing the playing of women's games on Association members' pitches.