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TIL Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, has long maintained his iconic work is not about censorship, but ‘useless’ television destroying literature. He has even walked out of a UCLA lecture after students insisted his book was about censorship.

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mxaZx TIL that Rhodes Scholarships and Rhodesia are named after the same guy,
0BAR TIL when enlisting in the British army during WWII writer/actor Sir Peter Ustinov requested tank duty “because you can go into battle sitting down,” and as result his superiors concluded, “On no account must this man be put in charge of others.” so he was assigned to the infantry instead
xeY5 TIL Terry Gilliam was J.K. Rowling first choice to direct Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
98Em TIL The Room (2003) is one of the few movies to pass the Bechdel Test: two female characters talk to eachother about something other than a man.
8aaWP Short Answer: It Prevents Some Injuries But Causes Others