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TIL that in Edinburgh Scotland the Balmoral hotel's clock is set three minutes fast to ensure the people catch their trains. The only day it runs on time is 31 December (Hogmanay), for the city's New Year celebrations.

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DQPZe TIL Drake bought a “fantastical, forgotten amusement park” made by famous artists such as Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Salvador Dali to name a few. The original park ran in Germany in 1987. You can go to see the original rides today in Los Angeles, at the carnival Luna Luna.
j6RPv TIL in 1976, an AP reporter, concerned about violent content in the arcade game Death Race and the effect it might have on players, wrote a widely disseminated article about it. Many at the game's manufacturer Exidy credited this and the negative coverage that began afterwards for increased sales.
NXZle TIL HBO cancelled Game of Thrones spin-off Bloodmoon in 2019 after spending $30 million on its pilot. HBO's content chief explained that it was a hard project because George RR Martin had only written about 8 lines of text for the era the show was set in, so a lot more invention was required.
DGZJ TIL When Disney released the first trailer for The Lion King, they simply showed the entire “Circle of Life” opening sequence. Disney felt it was so powerful it worked as a trailer, and the movie went on to set box office records.
QJVdd TIL that Disney sent imaginears to Enchanted Forest (Salem , Or) to ride Mondor, so they could later build Buzz Lightyears Astro Blasters using the same technology .