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Til: the creator of BUMFIGHTS showed up to a Dr Phil interview dressed up like Dr Phil and called him out for exploiting people saying they were the same.

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b6J7 TIL that Brian May, guitarist for Queen, has a PhD in Astrophysics. He abandoned his thesis work in 1971 to be a musician and went back and completed the thesis in 2007.
7rkWr TIL the ancient Greeks understood how to use the three seashells: "The anthropologist also cited an ancient Greek proverb which said 'three stones are enough to wipe one's arse'."
XLZQ TIL CDs are 74 minutes long because the president of Sony wanted to listen to Beethovens 9th symphony without interruption
d8WOB TIL Mars, Inc. refused to let Universal use its M&M products for the 1982 movie "E.T." because they found the E.T. character to be terrifying and ugly. Hershey agree to have Reese’s Pieces be used in the film, which boosted company profits by an incredible 65% during the film's release.
XErm8 TIL about Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky a Russian photographer who traveled the Russian Empire from around 1909 to 1915, and would take 3 individual black-and-white photos, each with a filter (red, blue, and green) to create high-quality pictures in full color way before full color images were available.