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TIL that Raging Bull was shot in black and white for no artistic purpose; it was just because lighting equipment for shooting in color would be too expensive.

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lDrG TIL Helen Keller was a socialist and one of the founders of the ACLU. After extensive travel, she said, “I had once believed that we are all masters of our fate…Now, however, I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.”
9YW5X TIL “Amazing Grace” was written by a repentant slave trader who hoped “it will always be a subject of humiliating reflection to me.”
v1Kpr TIL There are 2 missing nuclear bombs that fell into the Atlantic Ocean on July 28, 1957 and are roughly 100 miles away from Atlantic City, NJ.
xOX7 TIL that in 1954, a covert US operation overthrew a democratically elected government in Guatemala for the benefit of an American fruit company.
9YDwp TIL that back in school, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen would throw Bill Gates in dumpsters so that Gates could go rummaging around in the rubbish looking for computer print-outs that would provide clues to early operating systems