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TIL no animated film has ever been three or more hours long

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nMEY TIL that Piggly Wiggly revolutionized grocery shopping in 1916 by allowing customers to select their own items, “To have no store clerks gab and smirk while folks are standing around ten deep to get waited on.”
e0r5g TIL that when recording the song "Giorgio by Moroder", Daft Punk used three different mics to capture Giorgio's monologue, each one from a different decade. The recording switches to the corresponding mic when Giorgio recounts that part of his life.
P1X5e TIL that in 2011, 90% of baby changing tables in public UK bathrooms tested positive for cocaine
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W7XE8 TIL that in 2016, Harrison Ford’s portrayal of US President James Marshall in the 1997 movie “Air Force One” was ranked by Wall Street Journal as the greatest fictional president in movie history.