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TIL The world’s first theater devoted exclusively to moving pictures appeared in Pittsburgh in 1905. Its founders called the place Nickelodeon, from the price of admission (a nickel) and “Odeon” the ancient Greek word for theatre.

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nYjW TIL of The Man Who Never Was. In 1943, a British Major’s body was found with papers detailing an upcoming attack against the Nazis in Greece. However, the Major never existed. It was a homeless man’s body planted with fake papers so the real attack on Sicily could take place with little resistance.
KOLya TIL A full-sized tree has been growing out of the 110 ft steeple of a courthouse in Indiana since the 1870s
xRGb TIL 80s hair band Winger can trace their massive mid-90s downfall in popularity to being mocked relentlessly on “Beavis and Butt-Head” and subsequent Mike Judge projects
5YBmD TIL food powder is the most common format of food material in the market.
e17L TIL that in 1912 scientist Alfred Wegener first published his theory of continental drift and was ridiculed. He died 1930 when exploring in Greenland; his body was buried there. Over the years his body sailed west at a rate of about 2cm/year carried on the back of the North American tectonic plate.