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TIL of Märket, a tiny island divided by the finnish-swedish border. When the finns inadvertedly built a lighthouse on the wrong side of the border, the swedes agreed to trade it for an equal spot of land on the other side, causing the border to zig-zag.

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8aypG TIL in film editing, that in 1994 only 3 feature films had ever been edited digitally. By 1995 none had ever won an Oscar for best editing. In 1996 "The English Patient" was the first (edited by Walter Murch on the Avid). Since then every Oscar winner has been.except 1998's "Saving Private Ryan".
VBRDB TIL the term "care package" was originally invented by the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe (CARE), an NGO established in 1945, and the term is still a registered trademark of that organisation
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wL7X8 TIL that when Cartoon Network launched in 1992, they played Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture over an animated fireworks show.
4kB96 TIL in the 1950s and 1960s trucks with fogging machines that sprayed DDT would be driven through American streets to kill mosquitoes and children would run behind the trucks to play in the thick fog that was created. In 1972, DDT was banned in the United States.