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TIL that in 2018, Saudi Arabia lifted a 35-year ban on cinema. The first film to screen publicly in the country after the ban was lifted was "The Emoji Movie"

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GnRJ TIL that when the Tsar Bomba (the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated) was tested, the fireball reached nearly as high as the altitude of the release plane, and it’s yield (50 mt) was about half the maximum yield of the bomb’s design (100 Mt).
VM45p TIL that CNN has a doomsday tape that they'll play when the world is confirmed to be ending
QJQOE TIL that the town from the movie "Erin Brockovich" is still struggling from the same conditions that led to the original lawsuit.
vPB6L TIL there is no scientific evidence that white people originated in the Caucasus, as the term “Caucasian” suggests. Rather, the term was created because Noah’s Ark allegedly settled there, and therefore the first humans were supposedly white.
kJP0m TIL the phallic symbol of Makamake, the second largest dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, is because the God of Fertility it was named after has big eyes and nose