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TIL Intellectual property law doesn’t cover magic tricks. An amazing, original trick can be stolen from a magician and there’s nothing he can do about it.

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O1rR TIL after being assigned to create the first act of a play for his playwriting class, Matt Damon turned in a 40-some-odd-page document and said, “Look, I might have failed your class, but it is the first act of something longer.” This was later developed into the movie, ‘Good Will Hunting’.
jNODE TIL we have 2 moons for the moment
VngB TIL that Native Americans are systematically denied access to the voting system, thus excluding them from the democratic process
xdP1 TIL Barry Manilow wrote many famous jingles for companies like McDonald’s (You deserve a break today), State Farm (Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there!) and BandAids. (I am stuck on Bandaids, cause Bandaids are stuck on me!)
R5b01 TIL the PF in PF Chang's is for Paul Fleming, a restaurant entrepreneur from Louisiana.