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a890L TIL about the short reign of King Zog I of Albania. Zog was an Albanian dictator who proclaimed himself king in 1928. He smoked 200 cigarettes a day and survived 55 assassination attempts. Within 10 years he took on so much debt that Italy eventually annexed the country and forced him out.
YpmDB TIL learned film giant Kodak went from 1.4 billion in profits in 2000 to bankruptcy in 2012, mainly due to not predicting the rise of online photo sharing and smartphone cameras.
neNKb TIL it's only called an acronym when you pronounce the abbreviation as a real word (ex. NASA). Otherwise it is known as an initialism (ex. FBI).
xVO9g TIL Yuuzhan Vong War episodes are not slated for any Star Wars movies. When Disney acquired Star Wars, Lucasfilm announced the all the stories of the Expanded Universe had been jettisoned.
OoLk1 TIL Police Woman, a 1974-1978 NBC TV show starring Angie Dickinson about a female cop caused an avalanche of applications for employment from women to police departments around the United States & was President Ford's favorite show, cancelling a press conference in order to avoid delaying an episode