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M7KVV TIL IMAX film is 70mm (2.75 inches) wide, reels can be nearly 2M (6 feet) in diameter and can weigh in excess of 270kg (600 pounds)
n69P TIL Even though golf is the 7th most popular sport in the US, the PGA Tour has donated over $2 billion to charity. By comparison, the NFL has donated about $370 million to charity.
neA7 TIL there are truly silent firearms: Russian cartridge design locks propellant gases inside the case. (X-post from r/guns)
6Wew TIL: Some older volumes of the Looney Tunes which featured racism were released uncensored “because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming that these prejudices never existed.”
dDllE TIL that the first country to recognize U.S. independence from Great Britain, in 1777, was Morocco.