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TIL One of the main reasons Hollywood became the home of American movie production was so that filmmakers could continue to use patented equipment illegally.

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60vW TIL a Cleveland Browns fan requested six Cleveland Browns pallbearers at his funeral so “the Browns [could] let him down one last time”
lAWG TIL that in the 17th century an old man on trial openly confessed to being a werewolf, but claimed to be good-natured, stating that he regularly went to hell with other werewolves to battle the witches and wizards of Satan to ensure a bountiful harvest.
5YWen TIL That Casey Jones' Locomotive Was Involved in the Deaths of Six Railroad Employees in Three Different Accidents
yVB0a TIL that the term boycott is named after the land agent Charles Boycott, against whom the tactic was used by Irish nationalists in opposition to the system of English landlords in Ireland
pNnN TIL Bishop Rock is a tiny island 4 miles off the coast of Cornwall, and its single lighthouse makes it the “world’s smallest island with a building on it”