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TIL that Technicolor is named after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where two of the founders of Technicolor, Inc., Herbert Kalmus and Daniel Frost Comstock, received their undergraduate degrees in 1904.

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awXe9 TIL: Television consumers in the US are encouraged to report to the FCC any commercials that exceed the volume of the regular programming. As of December 13, 2012, all television stations have been expected to abide by rules established under the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act.
wL8do TIL there is a Jewish community in Belmonte, Portugal that survived in hiding for centuries. They opened their current synagogue in 1996.
Q8Xk TIL that the Lord of the Rings novels were written as if they were translated to English, and the actual common tongue of the books is called Westron.
ZpkjG TIL that in 1983 a term was coined for worker ants of certain species that can have children but are not queens, derived from γάμος (gámos) and ἐργάτης (ergátēs), the term in english is ‘Gamergate’.
R7EG1 TIL in 1995, after the U.S. Congress attempted to deny foreign aid to Turkey, the mayor of Izmir, Turkey banned the sale of Dole bananas, mistakenly believing that then-Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole owned the fruit company.