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TIL When George RR Martin writes, he does not know the ending of his own ongoing story, feeling “if I know exactly where a book is going, I lose all interest in writing it.”

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a87My TIL In 1979 Fotomat started renting videos, 6 years before the creation of Blockbuster Video. Customers would order from a catalog, call the local Fotomat, and pick it up the next day for a 5 day rental at $12.95. They had exclusive contracts for Disney and Paramount films. Discontinued in 1982.
gM7RD TIL that the first person to die in the American Revolution was African-American.
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