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TIL Because of its popularity as a midnight movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has the longest theatrical run in history (almost 38 years and counting).

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VBAYZ TIL Leonardo da Vinci Used Mirror Writing for the Majority of His Personal Notes
BAXD TIL: Seventeen minutes of lost footage from 2001: A Space Odyssey was recovered from a Kansas salt mine
OG9vX TIL the reputed founder of the Outlaws MC (the oldest outlaw biker club in the world) was killed in a shootout in the 1970's during a power struggle between a faction of members who preferred to drink beer and a faction who preferred to smoke marijuana.
yQAl TIL Cats’ kidneys are so efficient that cats can survive on a diet consisting only of meat, with no additional water, and can even rehydrate by drinking seawater.
JY0AV TIL of Sanford B. Dole, who became the President of the Republic of Hawaii, after a pro-American coup d'état overthrew the Hawaiian monarch. His government secured Hawaii's annexation by the United States. His cousin founded the pineapple company that would become the Dole Food Company.