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TIL that movie trailers were originally shown after the movie, which is why they were called “trailers”

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PYj7O TIL in 2008, Janet Barrett from the UK received a RSVP to a party invitation originally posted on 29 November 1919. It had taken 89 years to be delivered by the Royal Mail.
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rRRo TIL one nanosecond is to one second as one second is to 31.7 years
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