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TIL the set of The Addams’ Family was actually very colorful because everything would turn out black and white on film anyway

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MeKGm TIL that in 1885 Chief Sitting Bull spent four months playing himself in reconstructions of Custer’s Last Stand for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Historians are divided as to whether he cursed the audiences in the Lakota language during his performance.
MXvV TIL that the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi first proposed the “Matrix philosophy” after dreaming he was a Butterfly. “Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man”
Zweo TIL that the 56,000 tonnes of food that Band Aid/Live Aid raised to relieve the 1983-85 Ethiopian Famine was left to rot at port due to Ethiopian Government Policies.
lomYV TIL between 1979 and 1989 Mat, one of the characters of the Czechoslovak TV show Pat & Mat, had his shirt color switched from red to grey because censors thought that the main characters wearing red and yellow shirts was a jab at the Soviet-Chinese relations.
4Yr5 TIL that the French ensign (French flag flown at sea) is not equally proportioned in its sections (30:33:37) because it was intended to look equal only when moving