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TIL that in Hollywood, Christopher Nolan along with Steven Speilberg are among the last holdouts who shoot on film in an industry that’s moved to digital.

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wAr1 TIL that the IKEA HQ in Delft, Netherlands had to stop offering their €1,- breakfast during the weekends because the highways couldn’t handle the traffic it attracted.
LQvB0 TIL Christian Slater and Bob Mortimer tried to get blueprints for a "reverse toilet", where you have a little shelf. Mortimer's anus is too high for regular toilets, so he needs to take his trousers off and sit on it backwards. It didn't go anywhere and they blew £700
0dPZM TIL there is a burger shop in Memphis, TN that is using 100+ year old grease to fry their hamburgers
QJKyp TIL Henry Heinz deliberately put his ketchup in clear glass bottles which was uncommon due to a lack of food safety standards. unethical companies used colored bottles to hide shoddy product and he worked with a chemist who went on to find foods containing gypsum, brick dust, borax, formaldehyde etc
loeAG TIL in 2015 a new antibody test was announced by a researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston that can reveal every virus your body has ever mounted a response against. The researcher estimated it would cost $25 per test.