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TIL that Amazon owns IMDB and is used to sell their movies.

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Gyr7 TIL that Iceland has the oldest existing parliamentary system in the world. It is over 1000 years old.
VBrdZ TIL June Huh dropped out of high school & then took 6 years to earn his B.S. Though a professor had sparked an interest in mathematics, he was accepted into only 1 PhD program due to his undergraduate experience. However at age 39, he was awarded the Fields Medal "the highest honor in mathematics".
5YDO9 TIL there was a popular chocolate product from Lebanon called Ras El Abed, meaning "slave's head". It has recently changed its name.
K0YG TIL that atheists are officially banned from holding public office in six US states.
BgLyr TIL a high school student wrote a text-based moon landing simulation in 1969 using a PDP-8 minicomputer. It was "a question and answer game" - at each stage of the landing you'd find out your current velocity and then you had to enter how much fuel to use. If you burned fuel too early, you'd crash.