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TIL there used to be an award for Typography in film

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OGxNX TIL that the longest continually updated video game is UnReal World, at 32 years. It was released in 1992 and the latest update was in 2024.
mWpY TIL the Gillette Fusion range of blades cost only £0.05 ($0.08USD) each to manufacture, yet sold for up to £2.43 ($3.68USD): a mark-up price of more than 4,750%
7ODM TIL 19th century biologist Sir John Lubbock experimented on ants by getting them drunk. He discovered that sober ants would carry their drunken ant comrades back to their nest, if they were from the same colony – but they would throw drunk strangers into the ditch.
JYQ9V TIL that in an urban revitalization effort, Cleveland attempted to set the Guinness Book of World Records by releasing millions of balloons from its downtown area. 60% of them wound up in Lake Erie, stymieing a rescue effort for two missing fishermen. Guinness denied the city any official records.
8aP6V TIL up until 1981, a purely heterosexual form of polyamorous marriage was widely practiced among the Tibetans: each man had many wives, and each woman had many husbands. This practice is still common today in rural areas.