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

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QJDrd TIL that Tyrannosaurus rex's tiny arms were actually extremely strong and are speculated to have been used to grasp struggling prey while it was killed by the tyrannosaur's enormous jaws, assist the tyrannosaur when rising from a prone position and grasp a mate during copulation.
wopAo TIL that Murong Xi, emperor of the Later Yan dynasty of China during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, had sexual intercourse with the corpse of his deceased wife.
b6W1Z TIL of Snorri Thorfinnsson, an Icelander who was the first child of European descent to be born in the Americas, in the early 11th century. His parents were explorers Thorfinn Karlsefni and Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir. He is one of the two main figures responsible for the Christianisation of Iceland.
pY7Q8 TIL Georg Cantor, the mathematician who came up with the idea that 'infinity has different sizes', was rejected by most of his contemporaries for his ideas and, as a result, suffered from chronic depression. He had to be confined to various sanatoria until the end of his life.
4XJOJ TIL sugar can twist light, and has been used in calibrating instruments that detect the rotation of light.