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TIL that Grand Budapest Hotel was shot at 1.37, 1.85 and 2.35:1 to inform the viewer where he is in the timeline, which alternates between 1985, 1968 and the 1930s.

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kOLd4 TIL the Saint Louis Arch is as wide as it is tall (630 feet x 630 feet)
9jKm TIL The USA is one of the last countries that hasn’t combined Boy and Girl Scouts.
QJEmM TIL in 2016 a 91-year-old woman filled out a crossword that turned out to be $116k artwork in a German museum
EB5V TIL Warner Bros sued an Indian film called “Hari Putter” and lost. Two reasons the court ruled against Warner Brothers is because “Hari” is a Hindi word with religious connotations and “Puttar” is a Hindi word for son. The film was about a boy who was left “home alone.”
xn55 TIL of the Shadow Biosphere. A hypothesis proposing the existence of lifeforms undetected by standard methods. One such being the continuation of the RNA World