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TIL in October 2012, around 25 families showed up to the Nottingham Cineworld theater to watch Madagascar 3. Due to a technical error with the projector, they wound up watching the opening scene of Paranormal Activity 4 instead, causing children as young as 5-years-old to start crying as a result

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xV0xB TIL that the reason so many African flags have green, yellow and red is because of the Ethiopian flag; as one of the few independent African nations during the colonial period, the new countries of Africa looked to them for inspiration
a8O1Z TIL that Mozart wrote a song for performer Adriana Ferrarese del Bene, who was known for nodding her head down on low notes and raising her head on high notes, that contained many jumps from low to high notes. This caused her head to move in a way that Mozart found amusing.
neBwY TIL that the only pulp in the world that can be used to manufacture disposable surgical masks is produced in Nanaimo. BC, Canada. ????????
AARd TIL That in the beginning, Hinduism was a much profound religion involved with rigorous inquiry into the truth about existence, as is evident in the hymns from the oldest of its holy books ‘Rig Veda’, before it began to turn into a potpourri of influences from other religions and pagan beliefs.
ADYyg TIL after surviving the plane crash that killed three of his bandmates, Artimus Plyle (the drummer of Lynyrd Skynyrd) was shot in the shoulder by a farmer as he stumbled though a field with a group of survivors.