Post * l7nwa — Curious Curator

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TIL that B-Movies were meant to be the bottom half of a double movie feature and were cheaper than Hollywood A-List Films (about 20% of the budget). Until the 1950s and 1960s, they were just considered cheaper films that theatres would pay a flat rental fee. The 'B' was not a grade for poor value.

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p8ZmZ TIL of the "Infinite Cat Project", starting in 2003, people have been taking pictures of their cats looking at the previous cat, and so on, and so on...

OJN6 TIL in 2009, Colorado initiated its Family Planning Initiative to provide low-to-no cost birth control to 68 family clinics around the state. Between 2009 and 2013, the state’s teen birth rate dropped by 40%.

nEBr TIL that when a dignitary complained to President Theodore Roosevelt about Alice Roosevelt (his daughter) smoking on top of the White House, Roosevelt replied, “I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.”

7rgjr TIL: In 2014, former MIT employee Ethan Zuckerman apologized for inventing the first popup ad in 1997.

M99W TIL - That reindeer aren’t native to Alaska. Sheldon Jackson purchased them from Siberia to help with the food shortages in the late 1800s. He brought in 16 and by the late 1930s there were 640,000.