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TIL that Blockbuster laughed in the face of the Netflix CEOs when they proposed their initial ideas. Ironically they are the ones that put them out of business.

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QJ8N6 TIL that residents in Surabaya, Indonesia can pay for the bus with plastic waste instead of money. Paying with plastic will grant you with 2 hours of travel. The aim is to reduce plastic waste whilst getting more people to use public transport, thus lowering the number of cars on the road.
bwd4 TIL that there is a three-digit-code on every egg carton that indicates the date of packaging, starting with January 1 as 001 and ending with December 31 as 365
4Xbb5 TIL that’s the pilot of Gilligan’s Island was filmed on the day of JFK’s assassination. Even after hearing this news, they continued filming and when they shot the Minnow’s departure scene, all the flags were at halfmast
x6BLw TIL after writing the main riff of Seven Nation Army, Jack White planned to save it in case he was ever asked to write a James Bond theme. Deciding this was unlikely to happen, he recorded the song anyways. Five years later, he was asked to write the theme song for the Bond film Quantum of Solace.
rRkwy TIL that Grapefruit are a hybrid of sweet orange and pomelo, and their pink hue was caused by deliberate radiation-induced mutations.