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TIL that the subscription business model has been around since the 17th Century

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loNbA TIL that in 1984, the Back to the Future production designer actually built the Hill Valley set to appear several years older than 1955 because the belief at the time was that making a period film in 1984 that was “right on in ‘55” would look “a little too new.”
XEJkQ TIL that in 1987, a West German teenager named Mathias Rust illegally flew a plane from Helsinki, Finland to Moscow, landed in the Red Square, and evaded the entire Soviet air defence system.
wLp46 TIL about Operation Popeye, when the US military successfully controlled the weather by seeding rain clouds, extending the monsoon season in Vietnam by a month.
BJYW TIL: Discovery’s “Sons of Guns” Star and former owner of Red Jacket is in Jail over child molestation charges, and rape of his own daughter.
p8Yk8 TIL during the closing credits of the South Park episode 'Trapped in the Closet', all names were replaced with either "John Smith" or "Jane Smith". This was done to shield any of the production staff from potential lawsuits.