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TIL A disgruntled Chinese man, who was recently single, organized for every odd numbered seat to be bought for the premiere screening of a romance movie on Valentine's Day, forcing couples to sit one seat apart

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j6ADE TIL after directly adapting Ricky Gervais’ antagonistic boss from the British version of The Office for the first few episodes, they completely rewrote character of Michael Scott to be more likable for the American audience.
awPd0 TIL that The Ancient Egyptians believed that the false door was a threshold between the worlds of the living and the dead and through which a deity or the spirit of the deceased could enter and exit.
y6aw TIL the entire Internet weighs about as much as a strawberry.
EW8X TIL a portion of the “snow” seen on television screens is microwave radiation left over from The Big Bang.
DQVpV TIL about when two Lithuanian pilots, Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas, tried to fly a plane named Lituanica from New York to Kaunas, Lithuania in 1933. The Lituanica made it across the Atlantic but fatally crashed 636 km short of the goal.