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TIL Jordan Peele decided to make "Us" a full-on horror film due to people being generally confused over the genre of "Get Out".

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jNWeX TIL learned IBM had to change the name of its dominant chess computer Deep Thought to Deep Blue after people started calling it Deep Throat
Lw5Q TIL there was a “Fairness Doctrine” that stated that broadcasters had to present both sides of a controversial issue; it was revoked in 1985 under the basis of violation of free speech.
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