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TIL Virtually nobody in the middle ages believed that the world was flat

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P0WZ TIL when actor James Cagney received an honorary degree he surprised the university by submitting a paper on soil conservation
QJENk TIL A scene was deleted from Borat (2006) due to an unusually patient supermarket manager.
kOwWe TIL: The Beatles song Blackbird was written in the civil rights era directly to encourage black girls as they integrated Little Rock schools. In Britain a bird is slang for girl. Interview with McCartney himself clearly stating this is attached. 16:34 in the video.
9wkNQ TIL about the "Book of Negroes", an official record of 3,000 Black Loyalists, mostly former slaves, evacuated to Nova Scotia (and freedom) after the American Revolutionary War
XQnQ TIL Steven Spielberg spent $250,000 of his own money in a campaign to see Bill Murray win an Oscar for his role in “What About Bob?”