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TIL the last film ever rented by an official branch of the Blockbuster chain of video stores was “This is the End.”

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Oo7Y7 TIL that when America fought for independence during the American Revolution, 40,000 British citizens fled to Canada to remain faithful to the crown.
5AOR TIL that Hawking, in his famous lecture ‘Life In the Universe’, allowed for the thought that intelligence may not be of long-term value in the process of evolution
m1LPO TIL: Owls ears are vertically asymmetric, giving them "stereo" hearing vertically as well as horizontally.
p8b7G TIL that German industrial metal band Rammstein has had the same members since its formation in 1994. This is because they've respected each others' wishes to take breaks, whether for personal reasons or to focus on side projects.
16Bp7 TIL that BMW was founded by a son of the inventor of the four-stroke gasoline engine Nicolaus Otto