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ADKV4 TIL Family Video still operates over 500 stores in the US and Canada. They own the real estate where their stores are located and they own all of the media they rent out so they keep all of the profits. This is why they were able to outlast other video rental businesses like Blockbuster.
wJnJ TIL that when the author of Mary Poppins died she was such a miserable person that even her grandchildren reported that she “died loving no one and with no one loving her.”
QJEVe TIL there is a mini “desert”, called the Athabasca Sand Dunes, near the northern border of Saskatchewan. It is the most northerly active sand dunes on the Earth.
VB1YQ TIL The African Island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe has a 500 year tradition of drama called 'Tchiloli', where just one play, the 16th century 'The Tragedy of the Emperor Charlemagne and the Marquis of Mantua' is ever performed.
AN6lo TIL In 1963 after the Kennedy Assassination, CBS producer Don Hewitt suggested to Dan Rather a plan to steal the Zapruder Film and copy it before returning the film. While Rather agreed to the idea, Hewitt had second thoughts and decided not to go through with the plan.