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TIL the first 3D feature film, The Power of Love, premiered on September 27th, 1922 at the Ambassador Hotel Theater in Los Angeles

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LkmX9 TIL Babylonians believed that eclipses were the gods’ way of expressing anger, if the moon appeared in front of the sun, they would literally murder their king. In order to escape this, the king would crown a puppet king and queen days before the eclipse, and kill them instead.
NXA6Q TIL sales of Ozempic and Wegovy saved the economy of Denmark from recession in 2023
R1bj TIL During the “secret war” waged by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1964 to 1973 against communist and nationalist forces in Laos, more bombs were dropped on this rural nation of poor farmers than all the explosives dropped on Germany and Japan in the Second World War.
grrDb Today I learned that Chipotle peppers are just smoked ripe Jalapenos
LkOdd TIL that Disney artist and animator Ruthie Thompson, who worked on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), is still alive today at age 107.