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TIL Kevin Smith announced he will donate all his dividends from Weinstein-Made films to the non-profit 'Women In Film'

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lowRK TIL the first 2 black senators in the US, who served in the 1870s, were both from the Deep South state of Mississippi. Mississippi also had a black Speaker of the House at this time.
6E47X TIL For the first three years of her life, Candice Bergen had breakfast with Edgar Bergen, her famous ventriloquist father, and Charlie McCarthy, his dummy, and thought Charlie was her brother. Charlie would sit there and talk to her: ‘Drink your milk.’ Her father never spoke directly to her.
dD6vZ TIL that Roger Corman, director of low-budget movies, helped kick start the careers of Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, and Ron Howard. He reportedly told Howard: "If you do a good job on this film, you'll never have to work for me again."
wLN5o TIL Joseph Conrad, who is regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language, was born in Poland and did not speak English fluently until his twenties.
BP6k TIL using baby talk with infants has valuable implications for language acquisition. This exaggerated speech style gives babies information about their ambient language, allowing them to break up what they hear into smaller chunks and process the patterns in their language more easily.