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TIL the movie “The Taming of the Shrew” had a tagline that read “"A motion picture for every man who ever gave the back of his hand to his beloved… and for every woman who deserved it.”

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GYWlJ TIL Disney does not own the rights to show "big" Marvel characters (Avengers, X-Men, Spider-Man, etc) in theme parks east of the Mississippi, due to a contract Marvel signed with Universal Studios in the 90s
Wk0yN Today I learned that there was a Nintendo game called “yeah yeah beebis 1” that appears in two different trade in catalogs that nobody can find a physical copy of.
Y9DZ TIL NASA astronaut Anna Lee Fisher made news in 2012, when, during the landing of the Space Shuttle Discovery at Washington’s Dulles Airport, she was asked by an aspiring young astronaut how they could get into the space program, Fisher quipped “study Russian.”
8ayJP TIL in 1968, at just 20 years old, Fred Hampton brokered a nonaggression pact among Chicago's most powerful street gangs and organized a multiracial "Rainbow coalition" to help end infighting and push for social change. He was then murdered in his sleep by the FBI.
Bgmlb TIL that fresh meat can have muscle spasms