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TIL that since the 1970’s, the NYPL’s Theatre on Film and Tape Archive has preserved live theatrical productions of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theatre productions.

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MgyB TIL: Many statues in NYC are of the same woman who was the first nude woman in film and spent the last 40+ years of her life in an asylum
Rvrj TIL that Bryan Cranston voiced many monsters in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and the Blue Ranger (Billy Cranston) is named after him
DBr TIL 200,000 users signed up for AOL Dial-up internet access in 2011
LbKP TIL of a homeless man in NYC who would regularly order an expensive dinner at a restaurant and refuse to pay for it in order to be sent to prison where he would receive 3 meals a day and a clean bed. He refused to commit more serious crimes to get longer sentences as he did not want to hurt anyone.
a6DJ TIL Hitler so admired the Greek resistance to the invading German army, that he ordered the release of all Greek POWs for “their gallant bearing”