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TIL Movie trailers are called trailers because they used to be shown after the movie

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yMmv TIL Eton College - one of the most expensive schools in Britain - was originally founded to provide free education to poor boys
vyRj TIL that in 1966 Australia became the last democratic country to lift the ban on married women in the public service. The Commonwealth Public Service Act 1902 stated that every female officer was “deemed to have retired from the Commonwealth service upon her marriage”.
8ao7K TIL According to writer-comedian Bob Odenkirk, John Candy was reputedly the "most-burned potential host" of SNL, in that he was asked to host many times, only for plans to be changed by the SNL staff at the last minute.
6pmJ TIL King Harald of Norway vowed to remain unmarried for life unless he could marry his true love, the daughter of a cloth merchant. She became the Queen of Norway.
YpWD7 TIL that humanity nearly became extinct 72000 years ago and we were down to 40 'breeding pairs'