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TIL: There is a $20,000 home theater device offered by Prima Cinema, which automatically sends Hollywood films to customers’ home systems the day they premiere.

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0dal5 TIL that the word "Salary" originated from the word "Salarium" which itself came from the Latin "Sal" for salt. Roman soldiers were sometimes, paid in salt due to its high demand and importance in preserving food such as meat and poultry.
l756G TIL that the original title of the novel "Robinson Crusoe" was not "Robinson Crusoe", and I can't type it here because it's too long.
8e9Pa TIL the Tulip Mania led to the laws that enabled futures contracts to be convertible into option contracts, a common investment vehicle today
VBd7Z TIL The President of France appoints the Archbishop of Stroudsburg and the Bishop of Metz. This is due to the fact that despite France being a secular nation, Roman Catholicism is still supported by French law and publicly subsidized in the region of Alsace-Moselle.
PYdXn TIL some scientists think our universe is formed through the process of 'quantum annealing' - more commonly known as a type of quantum computing