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TIL - Meerkat sentries will climb just about anything to get a better view of their surroundings…including cameramen.

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1RLD TIL Bram Stoker’s widow won a copyright lawsuit against the makers of the German classic film “Nosferatu.” Though the courts ordered all copies of the film burned, one survived hidden and was copied and disseminated making “Nosferatu” the first cult movie.
EgVwP TIL that Denzel Washington and Quentin Tarantino had a years long feud over Washington's belief that Tarantino added racist dialogue to CrimsonTide.
XE1lk TIL the former dictator of the Central African Republic, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, forced the nation's school children to buy expensive uniforms from a company he owned. When the children protested, he had 100 of them executed as an example.
jd5N TIL In ancient China, during the Imperial Exams people were isolated in small rooms for 3 days with only a jug of water, a chamber pot, and writing supplies. To prevent favoritism official typists would copy all the exams so the examiners wouldn’t recognize the handwriting of the exam takers.
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