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TIL that the reason names are rarely in the same order as the faces across a movie poster is because the name order is according to the billing order and contract-bound.

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78arP TIL Chicken Parmesan is not an Italian dish, it was invented in America by Italian immigrants and the first published recipe was in a NY newspaper in 1953. The dish became wildly popular in Australia where its served with salad and fries, although they hotly debate if the fries go under the chicken
D1eaj TIL after 30 WWII veterans in their mid-nineties were shown ‘Dunkirk,’ the general consensus among them was that they loved the film and thought it captured events very accurately, but “thought the soundtrack was louder than the actual bombardment.” The comment amused Nolan greatly.
dDMMd TIL of the Gansu ultramarathon disaster, a 62-mile race in which 21 runners lost their lives
kJ8N7 TIL there are 21,215 7-Eleven stores in Japan (nearly 30% of global stores), with 2,824 stores in Tokyo alone
8eBWa TIL there are 352 million discovered knots