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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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4G1o TIL during the civil war the man who chose the location for the Arlington Cemetery, Montgomery Meigs, a southerner who hated the confederacy, chose Arlington, Robert E. Lees family estate to remind him of the men he had killed, including Meigs’s son who was buried feet from Mrs. Lees rose garden.
VMnPm TIL Tesla's space travelling Roadster passed Mars, Mercury and Venus in 2018. It's estimated that the Roadster will continue in its elliptical orbit until coming close enough to Earth in 2091 to be seeable by a telescope. It might then crash into Earth millions of years in the future.
VB4nZ TIL When Savonarola, a fanatic friar, took control of Florence he harshly persecuted homosexuality. After his reign ended, people were eager to return to enjoying all the things he banned: one government official attending the friar's execution was quoted saying "thank God we can sodomise again!"
9YjQM TIL about Lafayette,a french aristocrat proclaimed to be 'The Hero of Two Worlds.' He fought as a general For America during the American Revolution, then went to France and fought as a General for the People in the French Revolution.
b6DDQ TIL about Washington Harrison Donaldson, the real-life inspiration for the titular Wizard of Oz. He was a circus magician, gymnast, and ventriloquist who disappeared in a hot air balloon never to be seen again.