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TIL that Kevin Smith donated all future residuals from Weinstein-made films to Women in Film charity.

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b9x47 Today I learned that Octopi lay eggs. Further, after the female octopi lays 1st her batch of eggs, they stop eating and begin to wither away and die.
Vem0 TIL On April 15, 1940, Stravinsky’s unconventional major seventh chord in his arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner led to his arrest by the Boston police for violating a federal law that prohibited the reharmonization of the National Anthem.
rRDoM TIL that typing "&zwnj" into youtube search bar yields videos with no titles. It's an acronym for "zero-width non-joiner".
GA48N TIL the total population of the world’s great whales is worth over $1 trillion, largely due to the carbon they capture and the ecosystems they support, according to the IMF
JYDW4 TIL that in Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, certain scenes such as the forest swinging scene, Miles was animated a 12 frames a second while Peter was animated at 24 frames a second, making Miles look less smooth. This was done to show Miles' inexperience at being Spiderman compared to Peter.