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TIL that the oldest surviving film "Roundhay Garden Scene" is from 1888. It is a 3 second clip of a family in a garden.

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69XJX TIL there are sand dunes on Kurnell Peninsula close to Sydney. They have been used as filming locations in several movies, including 40000 Horsemen and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
7MPZ TIL that a secret soviet intelligence agent is primarily responsible for thwarting Operation Long Jump, concocted by Adolf Hitler, which was an attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the Tehran conference in 1943. This might be responsible for saving the world.
nerM9 TIL after two cast members of LOST were arrested for drunk driving, both their characters were killed off in an episode called "Two for the Road".
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VMOw8 TIL French banks are still using a very old rule to calculate Bank accounts Interest on a Biweekly basis, and none have implemented a daily calculation yet. Back in the days bankers were manually doing accounting twice a month.