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TIL that the Library of Congress in the US has the unadulterated 35mm print of “Star Wars” submitted to them in 1977 for copyright, and anyone can watch it by prior appointment.

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N79Ge TIL about Percy Ross, who for 17 years used a syndicated column called "Thanks a Million" to share his fortune with people who wrote in with good sob stories and in 1980, he offered $50 million to Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini in exchange for the U.S. hostages.
0B7N TIL George Clooney Keeps A Photo Of Himself As Batman ‘As Cautionary Reminder Of What Happens When You Make Movies For Commercial Reasons’
5YBMP TIL that Eric Idle wrote a 12-line poem and a budget when formally proposing the movie “The Meaning Of Life” to the studio. It was OK’d immediately.
mx5yx TIL in 1988, a US Senator invoked an obscure rule to allow the Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest absent Senators and bring them into the chamber for a vote. One Senator attempted to escape, but was caught and carried feet-first into the Senate chamber by three officers.
NbJJ TIL the German insurance firm ERGO rewarded its 100 best salesmen with a prostitute-filled “sex party” in Budapest’s most famous thermal baths.