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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.

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v1XjK TIL Oscar Hammerstein II is the only perso to win an Oscar and be named Oscar.
woKpM TIL Captain America co-creator Jack Kirby was drafted into the U.S. Army during WWII, landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy. When a lieutenant found out he was a comics artist, he made Kirby a scout who would advance into towns and draw reconnaissance maps and pictures, an extremely dangerous duty.
b9XZ TIL that generally, income per capita increases with absolute latitude. This is called the Equatorial Paradox
Bble TIL that Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule and Nobel prize laureate, sent a letter accompanied by a cheque for 10 guineas to Winston Churchill, saying that the money should be used for the establishment of a brothel at the Cambridge University, instead of a chapel.
wLw07 TIL viagra was invented on accident: “It was originally developed as a medication used for lowering high blood pressure. It failed to acheive this purpose and was discontinued. When test subjects were asked to return their unused medicine, however, they all refused”