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TIL: Julie Taymor became first woman to win Best Direction Tony 1998

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mxDoY TIL that all 11 films adapting Lemmy Caution, an American character written by a British writer in a series of English novels, are in Dutch or French.
yJDJ TIL The shoe company ‘Atheist Shoes’ conducted an experiment where they sent packages with 'Atheist’ brand packing tape and neutral packing tape to the U.S. The 'Atheist’ marked packages took an average of 3 days longer to ship and where 10 times more likely to disappear.
LkVLZ TIL that if the Moon was brought 21 times closer to the Earth it would break apart and give the Earth rings, due to what's known as the Roche Limit
XEvd6 TIL there are 32 kings in Cameroon.
kOwKm TIL that the son of Alexander Hamilton successfully represented Aaron Burr’s wife in her divorce case against him