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TIL Adam Sandler's movie "50 First Dates" inspired a real therapy program in which patients with early dementia watch every morning a video message of support from their loved ones.

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BgNvd TIL the city of Vernon in the LA area is exclusively industrial and its only residents are the city administration and its employees.
awwAy TIL all zombies in mainstream media were made possible by a copyright mistake of George A Romero's classic, Night of the Living Dead. He would have kept rights till 2024
4XRJ5 TIL that the US Army never gave the Native Americans smallpox infested blankets as a tool of genocide. The US did inflict countless atrocities against the natives, but the smallpox blankets story was fabricated by a University of Colorado professor.
NEOE TIL that after about a millennia of teaching about “Limbo”, in 2007 the Roman Catholic Church concluded that it doesn’t actually exist.
ZxOR TIL Shirley Phelps-Roper (Westboro Baptist Church) is banned from entering the UK for “fostering extremism or hatred”.