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TIL That, due to a copyright error, Night of the Living Dead is public domain

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b1Qp TIL Papa John sold his car 1983 to start up his pizza company. He later located and bought the car back in 2009.
MknA TIL Nicolas Cage was once stalked by a mime, and broke into his house and watched him sleep.
e0G9D TIL that the term “cervical” does not only refer to the cervix of a woman, but is also used to allude to a person’s neck and several other “neck-like passages” within the body (see comment).
GOV7 TIL that in WW2 English spies planned to make Hitler less aggressive by feeding him oestrogen, the female sex hormone. It would go unnoticed by his food testers because it was slow and subtle. The English spies were already close enough to Hitler to execute the plan, but it never went through.
gMnKD TIL the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs created a line of freshwater caves. The Mayan culture was able to rise in the normally freshwater-poor Yucatan directly as a result of that meteor.