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TIL The film The Shawshank Redemption remains one of the most valuable assets in Warner Brothers catalog (which has several multi-billion dollar movie franchises) and Bob Gunton (the warden) still makes six figures a year from it.

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M6KW TIL Alfred Hitchcock wrote a story for Look magazine in 1943 called “The Murder of Monty Woolley”. It was a sequence of captioned photographs inviting the reader to inspect the photos for clues to the murderer’s identity.
M77wa TIL That Hawaii is not protected under Article V of NATO because it wasn't granted statehood until almost a decade after NATO was formed.
x0Wg TIL A study was conducted to test the effect of price on the effectiveness of an energy drink. Despite being told that the drinks were identical, the group that bought the higher priced drink performed better on tests. This is called the price-placebo effect.
nWw4P TIL the “like a good neighbor, State Farm is there” jingle was written by Barry Manilow
Abg TIL that BBC mistakenly used the UNSC logo from the Halo Franchise in place of the actual UNSC (United Nations Security Council) logo in one of their broadcasts