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TIL China has more movie screens and bigger audience than all of North America and over 90% of films they watch are made in China. China is also projected to be the world leader in film by 2027!

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KO4g9 TIL the United Kingdom hasn't really required people to pay for bail since 1898. This was to help reduce the number of people remanded in custody simply because they were poor. Nowadays, bail is automatically given unless said person has a risk of absconding or is a risk to the public.
R5Daw TIL that Lego's first animated TV show was titled "Edward and Friends" in 1987, created for the BBC2 network. Featuring Edward Elephant (of Lego's "Fabuland" theme), it used traditional stop-motion puppets instead of real Lego elements, and had a 5 minute runtime with only 26 episodes produced.
oBYWR TIL that in 1937, Joachim von Ribbentrop almost knocked over King George VI of England when he greeted him with a "stiff-armed" Nazi salute. At the time, Ribbentrop was the German ambassador to England.
lo84a TIL Martin Luther King, Jr., was actually born Michael King, Jr. His father, also a minister, changed his and his son's name to Martin Luther when he was five, after the famed Church Reformer.
4XEKb TIL because the crew of Dr Strangelove was denied access to a B-52 bomber, they made a replica of the cockpit by comparing those of a B-29 with a single photo of the B-52's cockpit. It turned out to be so accurate that Kubrick began to worry about a FBI investigation into how they got it so close.