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TIL that Orson Welles, Noam Chomsky, and Ayn Rand all recorded (rather moribund) Christmas specials.

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rj6w TIL that a prisoner named James Carter was leading the men in a song called “Po’ Lazarus”. Someone recorded and preserved them singing for 40 years. In 2000 it was used in a movie soundtrack, which won a Grammy. Carter was tracked down and given thousands in royalties. He didn’t remember the lyrics.
XExwD Age-related vision loss prevented by exercise in an experimental study.
E164x TIL that one controversial scene in Hitchcock's Psycho was when Marion flushed the money down the toilet because "no flushing toilet had appeared in mainstream film and television in the United States at that time".
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