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TIL that after Encyclopedia Britannica stopped its publication in 2012, ending a 244 year run of published volumes, World Book remains the only encyclopedia still in print

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XEblD TIL that all movie theaters in the US are required to provide subtitles in the form of closed captioning.
Aedg TIL Forrest Gump beat ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ and 'Pulp Fiction’ to win the Oscar for the Best Picture in 1995. Also, Tom Hanks beat Morgan Freeman and John Travolta to win the Best Actor in the same year.
9wM96 TIL Hatshepsut, a female pharaoh who ruled for over 20 years, often depicted herself in statues and painting with a male body and false beard in order to establish herself in the Egyptian patriarchy.
Lapd TIL that Judd Apatow watched the movie “True Romance” and had the idea of Floyd, the beloved stoner character played by Brad Pitt, finally leaving the apartment and getting chased by bad guys. That idea ended up becoming “Pineapple Express”.
gL5D TIL that most of the meat in burger adverts is raw and that they paint it with food coloring and go through tonnes of other ingredients and techniques, just to get that perfect looking burger