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Y7Zp7 TIL the movie In the Heat of the Night is notable for being the first in color major Hollywood movie to have lighting with proper consideration of black people. The lighting standard at the time produced too much glare on black skin, rendering features indistinct
84v8 TIL during the Black Death, religious zealots would whip themselves to repent of their sins, ultimately making the plague spread even faster due to exposed bleeding
QOKe TIL that the children’s TV show Thomas the Tank Engine had an episode where an engine was dismantled and turned into a generator behind a train shed, alive and aware of what was happening to him.
lB5B TIL a can of Coke will sink in water but Diet Coke will float
5VQAp TIL in 1763 John Adams wrote seven essays under the pen name Humphrey Ploughjogger