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TIL that AMC Theatres is owned by the richest man in China

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b9Xn4 TIL Ex-President Ronald Reagan occupied the 34th-floor Fox Plaza office building (where parts of "Die Hard" were shot) til 2001, breaking tradition by using a private office over a federal one. When Reagan aides toured the 34th-floor in 1989, it was littered with shells/broken glass from "Die Hard".
5VQ1k TIL that Windows has an emoji panel if you hit the window button + the period or semicolon button, which can add even complex emojis to text. (⌐■_■)
LkGRm Til There’s a Hybrid between a Polar and Grizzly Bear called a “Prizly” or a “Grolar” Bear
8adXG TIL in 1957, five men stood directly underneath a 2-kiloton nuclear bomb detonated at 18,500 feet to demonstrate how safe it was. One looked up at the explosion through regular sunglasses. They all lived into their 70s or 80s
OpmX TIL that in 1975, physicist Kip Thorne bet Stephen Hawking one year of issues of Penthouse Magazine that black holes exist. Thorne won.