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TIL movie previews were originally shown at the end of a film, trailing the main feature. This is why movie previews are called “trailers.”

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LOLZ TIL that the reason Tetris is so addictive is because of deep-seated psychological drive to tidy up
WkdxA TIL that many sweets are (intentionally) covered in insect feces.
v1NkD TIL that a one-way mirror is also called a two-way mirror
KeN6 TIL Jules Verne wrote the novel “Paris in the Twentieth Century” back in 1863 and described a world of glass skyscrapers, high-speed trains, cities of elevator-equipped, gas-fuelled cars, subways, and a worldwide communications network.
OGBEX TIL The Vuoristorata, a wooden rollercoaster at the Linnanmäki amusement park in Helsinki, Finland, is operated by a brakeperson standing at the rear of the train. Designed by Valdemar Lebech and built in 1950, it was the last rollercoaster in the world built using side friction technology.