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TIL the oldest company in the world has been operating since 578 AD

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LQ6XZ TIL following the success of the National Lampoon's Animal House, Mad magazine lent its name to the comedy film, Up the Academy but it was such a commercial and critical failure that Mad arranged for all references to the magazine to be removed from future TV and video releases of the film.
LQmvv TIL Stanley Kubrick was a stationery aficionado and made frequent trips to a stationery shop in St. Albans, UK, to "see if they had something new". Nobody ever recognised him.
oRMno TIL about King Neptune, a pig that the US navy auctioned multiple times to raise funds for the USS Illinois. It raised 19 million (321 million today) dollars in war bonds and two monuments were made in its honor.
78g4p TIL that, until 1564, in France, the year began either at Christmas, on March 25, on March 1 or even at Easter
KYl9B TIL in 1847, Israel Josaphat used pigeons to bypass a gap in telegraph lines to get info from Paris to Berlin faster than the Mail Train. He would later change his name to Paul Reuter and found the eponymous news org