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TIL in Pittsburgh in 1905, America’s first motion picture theater opened. It was named the Nickelodeon. The name was created by combining the cost of admission, a nickel, with ‘odean’ which is the Ancient Greek word for theater.

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rRXJ1 TIL Wang Meng was sent to Xinjiang to be "reformed" through labor in 1963 for writing a controversial piece. During this period of hardship he accrued much of the experience that would later become the material for his short stories and novels, and he later became China's Minister of Culture
YpxL7 TIL A 2009 study found that the risk of sudden death during a marathon is 0.8 per 100,000 people, and that triathlons have a significantly higher risk of sudden death at 1.5 in 100,000.
7rXyO TIL Frederick the Great, Prussian Monarch from 1740 to 1786, known for his tactical genius on the battlefield, is considered by historians to be primarily homosexual in orientation. Following a demoralizing defeat, he wrote "Fortune has it in for me; she is a woman, and I am not that way inclined."
KOLDJ TIL Scottish scientists were awarded £250,000 in funding for a 3 year program to breed sheep who fart less. First they will work out how much methane the sheep produce; then they'll attempt to create more of the animals who fart the least.
4Rx6 TIL mozzarella specifically refers to cheese made from buffalo milk. If cows milk is used the cheese is known as Fior di latte.