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TIL M. Night Shyamalan wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little.

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xVyND TIL in February 1961, East Orange, NJ police arrested 14 people from their beds at home after midnight. Their crime was failing to return library books that were more than four months overdue.
WarL TIL that the reason students have summer off is because, in the 1800s, it was simply too hot to go to school, so students just didn’t show up anyway. Lawmakers eventually saw the sense in this and fought for a school-free summer for students.
VM5E8 TIL of Hypatia. She was a world-renowned female mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher of the 4th-century who was literally torn apart by oyster shells and set on fire by a mob of Christain zealots.
R7Aw TIL the English name for the color Orange is named after the Orange fruit, and the color was originally, “Geoluard”
x0kw TIL: The Boondock Saints has one of the most discrepant audience (91%) to critic (20%) ratings on rotten tomatoes