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TIL that at his insistence (citing that it would be "blood money"), all royalties from Schindler's List, that would normally have gone to Steven Spielberg instead are given to the Shoah Foundation which records and preserves written and videotaped testimonies from survivors of genocide worldwide.

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X0DQk TIL that today's rapid "Chorleywood Breadmaking Process" is one of the biggest culprits for the rapid rise in IBS
R7dL8 TIL Warner Music once sued a guy from YouTube, who was defending the company's music made by Katy Perry(dark horse) against a copyright lawsuit, for playing the song on YouTube without a proper copyright. Only to find out the song he played was not Katy perry's, rather the claimant's.
Brpke TIL in the 1960s and 70s, professionally trained psychologists overtly focused on combating unionization, introduced sophisticated behavioural and social science techniques to allow employers to screen out potential union supporters and to facilitate the maintenance of a non-union environment
N7OXJ TIL of the Lighthouse of Maracaibo; a weather system appearing in Venezuela approximately half the year which results in near-continuous lightning for ten hours a day.
ADrJg TIL that in 1806 Andrew Jackson challenged a man to a duel after he made fun of his wife and wrote a letter to a newspaper calling him a "coward". Jackson ended up winning but got shot in the chest, and as a result had a bullet stuck near his heart for the rest of his life.