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TIL the 'Longest' word has 189,819 letters and takes three hours to pronounce

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woXJE TIL Psycho (1960) is the first U.S. film to feature a toilet flushing. At the time, it was considered inappropriate to show a toilet being flushed on screen. Alfred Hitchcock saw an opportunity to add some extra shock to his already shocking film
m1J8R TIL: The children's film "The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin" was actually a co-production between Japan and the Soviet Union and was originally titled "The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin". Also, a lot of death and violence was edited out of the English version.
ZWQB TIL that a neutrino particle could pass through a block of lead 1 light year thick and never interact or be stopped by a single atom.
BgLMD TIL: Shoes discovered in Titanic wreckage are typically found in pairs because they were worn by victims when they died. The bodies disintegrated but the shoes remain due to tannic acid in leather
GYam7 TIL there is a Russian video games news show "Ot vinta" that have started airing in 1995 and ran till 1998. They have continued making episodes through the years with the same hosts and are still going. The same two guys in Russia reviewed the first DOOM in 1995 and DOOM Eternal in 2020.