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TIL of Carl Laemmle, who migrated to the US in 1884. He started one of the first movie theaters in Chicago, challenged Thomas Edison's monopoly on films, began advertising stars to increase their earnings, founded Universal and sponsored hundreds of Jews to emigrate from Nazi Germany to the US.

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