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TIL the Kodak company used a 13-month calendar from 1924 to 1989 and George Eastman pushed for its worldwide acceptance.

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drl7 TIL Milla Jovovich and Luc Besson developed the ‘divine language’ for the movie The Fifth Element. Both of them were fluent in it by the time the film production was finished.
KYK0w TIL that those bizarre Mentos commercials shown in the USA in the nineties, were all produced in Germany, where the candy comes from.
e00kJ TIL that in Antarctica is gets so cold the air (-89.2C) can freeze the CO2 you breath out at -78.5C.
OA4L TIL: There is a library that was built on the US/Canadian border. Exiting the library through the opposite entrance requires one to report to the country’s customs thereafter.
PYgJw TIL that the game Snakes and Ladders originated in ancient India and was called Moksha Patam. The morality lesson of the game was that a person can attain salvation (Moksha) through doing good, whereas by doing evil, one will inherit rebirth to lower forms of life.