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TIL the first movie trailer dates back to 1913, for the movie The Pleasure Seekers

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neGBo TIL in the UK, Superman was portrayed in an anti-smoking campaign against his arch rival Nick O’Teen - an evil villain who looked like a human cigarette butt with yellow stained teeth. The campaign was aimed at kids aged 7 to 11 and 800,000 of them ask for an anti-smoking campaign pack via the mail.
XEwQQ TIL about the Hoff Crab (Kiwa tyleri), nicknamed after David Hasselhoff for it's incredibly hairy chest. It feeds by eating bacteria that grow on these hair like projections. They live near hydrothermal vents in very sulfuric environments.
8axyK TIL the oldest existing, continually operating higher education institution in the world is the University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco - it was founded in 859CE by a Muslim woman, Fatima al-Fihri.
VM5X4 TIL: Horses only have one toe on each foot
bbRZ TIL there is one wild monkey population in Europe and it’s growing - Barbary macaques of Gibraltar