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TIL that The Gaumont Film Company is the oldest exciting film company in the world

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b9G44 TIL that the average full time online poker player sits at their computer around 6 hours a day
OGQa4 TIL about Rocky, a black bear who served as a paratrooper in the Korean War and is a Purple Heart recipient
OGg6Y TIL Lego almost went bankrupt in the 1990s but was saved in part by the unexpected success of Bionicle.
gMBdD TIL A small island in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay named Tangier Island still speaks a dialect of Old Modern English that sounds the most like British English.
b9QMZ TIL Moths don't like light at all! They use moonlight to navigate by night. By keeping the moon at a constant angle, they could ensure they traveled in a straight line. Unfortunately, they now confuse electric lights with the moon and try to navigate by them so they keep going around it, confused.