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TIL the camera used to film Mary Poppins has never been successfully replicated. It's special prism could create "green screen" effects before modern green screens were invented, and is utterly unique.

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1GkD TIL that all the domestic cattle today descended from a single group of 80 Aurochs (a type of cattle hunted to extinction by early humans).
nMGb TIL In France, each train station has a piano in a prominent place for anyone to play. In 4 years, not a single one has been vandalized.
LXZQ TIL that The Vidocq Society - a group of amateur detectives inspired by the real life Sherlock Holmes - investigate and often solve exceedingly difficult cases.
LeQv TIL that the nomadic “hunter-gatherer” phase of humanity makes up over 90% of Homo Sapien history. Civilisation and recorded history have existed for a tiny fraction of the time that our species has existed.
6EWYX TIL that Gerald Ratner, ex-CEO of a budget jewelry chain, destroyed £500 million in company value with a single speech in which he called his products "total crap" and "cheaper than an M&S prawn sandwich but probably wouldn't last as long." Such gaffes are now known as "doing a Ratner."