In 1958, Congress created Captioned Films for the Deaf. The first captioned TV broadcast was a rerun episode of The French Chef in 1972.

Composer John Williams recently confessed that he never really cared much for film music.

Who came up with the afternoon tea tradition? Despite popular myth, it wasn’t Anna Maria Russell, Duchess of Bedford. According to Queen Victoria’s journal entry on August 15, 1845, Russell did indeed serve afternoon tea that fateful day, but the Queen described it as being served tea in “the German way.”

A 2025 study published in Nature suggests there may be up to seven grams of microplastics in your brain – about what a common plastic spoon weighs.

Sol Wachtler, the former chief judge of New York state, coined the phrase that grand juries, by and large, “could indict a ham sandwich.” In 1993, Wachtler was indicted for extortion and other crimes.

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