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TIL - China/Taiwan renamed Guardians of the Galaxy as: "Interplanetary Unusual Attack Team"

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OOPa TIL that Daniel Snyder (controversial owner of the Washington Redskins) took over Six Flags in 2005 and on his second day fired Mr. Six (the dancing old guy), calling the ad campaign “pointless”
KOYl4 In this episode of Today I Learned, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Thomas Taha Rassam Culhane introduces the Zabaleen and explains how they’ve built a way of life around Cairo’s garbage.
0xj1 TIL that in the British run German internment camps of WWI a German born member developed an exercise program that could be done using only one’s own body-weight. His name? Joseph Pilates.
0dk8p TIL The SX 70 Land, released in 1972, was the first instant camera to use automatic-developing integral film, meaning no waste to clean up, as all process chemicals are permanently stored in the print
NG9E TIL that sales of the Guy Fawkes mask — used by protesters all over the world as a symbol of their fight against government corruption and corporate power — all go to Time Warner.