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Kg7a Today I learned movie trailers used to come after the movie - “trailed” the movie but no one would stay after the film to watch them.
9YRxD TIL that in 1954, the French was soundly defeated by the Vietnamese at Dien Bien Phu. That was the first time a non-European colony defeated a modern Western occupier in a pitched battle. The victory then fuelled the independence movements in other colonies, like Algeria
4E05 TIL that a gay Communist American was kicked out of his party for being gay, and later kicked out of a gay rights group for being a Communist.
Bg0kr TIL that the Radio City Rockettes didn’t allow Black dancers in until 1987, claiming that their skin tone would distract from the group’s consistent look.
VM768 TIL that a coal fire has been burning in a mine in Centralia, Pennsylvania for over fifty years and that, if left uncontrolled, could burn for at least another century.