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TIL that due to a mishap by the distributor, George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead had no copyright protection and instantly fell into the public domain

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b9BDN TIL Sylvester Graham invented graham crackers as part of a radical vegetarian diet meant to curb the desire to masturbate
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