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Brlwk TIL that the world's largest film studio is Hengdian Studios, in China. Basically a city of permanent full-scale replicas of palaces, fortresses, and towns from various periods of China's history. Whole populations of nearby towns are often employed to be extras for period dramas & fantasy movies.
6mXX TIL Only 2 countries in the world allow advertising prescription medication to consumers, the US and New Zealand
9OL6 TIL Humans almost became extinct in 70,000 BC after a supervolcano erupted and sent 650 miles of earth into the air, dropping the population to as low as 40 breeding couples.
1B9d TIL before World War I, most people did not have or need an identity document.
kOboe TIL the word “loot” came from Hindi and Sanskrit on India during colonial times until England adopted it into the English language