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The oldest material on Earth is actually older than the Earth itself. In 1969, the Murchison meteorite fell near Murchison, Australia and broke into several pieces. About 100 kg of the meteorite was sent to various scientific institutions around the world for study. In January 2020, a study was published showing that meteorite fragments contain microscopic particles that are 4.6 to 4.9 billion years old, with the oldest particles being 7 billion years old. Making it older than the formation of the Sun and Earth.
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first TV drama, queen’s messengeraired in 1928, the same year that Mickey Mouse was introduced to the world. This production was an experiment between GE and a broadcast station in Schenectady, New York.
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The first gay kiss on film occurred in 1927. wing. The film tells the story of two World War I fighter pilots and best friends who fight for the affections of the same woman. However, over the past few decades, many have pointed out that the film has subtle homoerotic undertones that suggest the two are more than just friends.
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Civil War veterans were still alive during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency. In fact, Roosevelt met them at the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1938 and gave a speech dedicating the Eternal Light Peace Memorial. The event was filmed and shown as a newsreel in movie theaters.
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The last person to receive a monthly pension for the Civil War died in 2020. Her name was Irene Triplett, and she was the daughter of Moses Triplett, a soldier who fought for the Confederacy but later switched sides and fought for the Union. Moses was 83 years old when Irene was born in 1930, and after Irene’s death she became his beneficiary. She collected $73.13 per month from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Before the 1980s, the Roswell UFO crash was essentially an unknown event. This incident was big news in 1947 when it occurred, but was quickly forgotten after the U.S. Air Force almost immediately recanted that it had not recovered the crashed UFO in Roswell, New Mexico, and that it was debris from a crashed UFO. Weather balloon. The National Enquirer and its books in the early 80s. roswell incident It reintroduced the event and interest in it.
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Sitcoms are a lot older than you might think. The first sitcom to air in the United States began in 1947. Mary Kay and Johnny.
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Color TVs existed in the 50s. Technology for this has been developed since the 40s. However, color TVs were so expensive that few people owned them. In 1954, a color television set cost about $1,000, which, adjusted for inflation, would be over $11,600 today.
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In 1960 psycho It changed the way people watched movies in theaters and the way we watch movies today. Before 1960, it was common for people to buy a ticket and go to the theater at any time during the movie. The movie plays on repeat, so if you’ve only watched the last 30 minutes of the movie, you can sit back and wait for it to play again so you can see what you missed. Directors and studios hated it, but people were used to going to the movies. But that caused a problem. Psycho.
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Walt Disney hated this method. Alice in Wonderland It turned out that he refused to re-release the film during his lifetime. But by 1971, five years after Walt’s death, the film had become a major motion picture, gaining a huge following among college students who rented 16mm films and held viewing parties. The film’s newfound popularity prompted Disney to re-release it in 1974, where they leaned fully into the psychedelic aspect of the film (as seen in the reissue poster below) and even played Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” on the radio. I also used it. Advertisement for it.
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George Atkinson opened the world’s first video rental store in Los Angeles in 1977. He got the idea after seeing an ad for a company selling 20th Century Fox movies for $50 each on VHS and Betamax. George, who ran a business renting Super 8 movies and party projectors, realized that people had to pay to rent videos. He went on to purchase one of the 50 titles available on VHS and Betamax and began placing advertisements for his new rental business. Within a year, he converted his rental business into a franchise called Video Station.
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while The Little Mermaid Although he’s credited with saving Disney animation, it’s rarely mentioned how it presented an opportunity for Disney. giant It created new revenue streams throughout the 90s and 2000s. In 1990, the film was the first Disney film to be released on home video following its theatrical release, and was considered a gamble for the company. Needless to say, the gamble paid off. The Little Mermaid It went on to become a big seller in home video.
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From 1977 until her death in 1994, Jackie Kennedy Onassis was a highly successful and respected book editor at Doubleday. In 1983, Doubleday executives came up with the idea of ​​having Michael Jackson write an autobiography, and asked Jackie to help get him signed and helmed. A memoir by an incredibly famous pop star would not be the type of book Jackie would want to be involved with, but she understood that having Doubleday’s huge commercial book following would help her publish her own passion projects. By all accounts, she will regret agreeing to participate.
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The Hermes Birkin bag is arguably the most famous bag in the world, and is notorious for its high price and rarity. However, when the bag was first released in 1984, it wasn’t very popular, and the bag cost around $2,000 (adjusted for inflation, it’s $6,000 today).
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In 2001 sex and the city The iconic episode where Samantha tries to buy Birkins really made them popular. Later, in the show’s fifth season, Carrie is seen carrying a Birkin bag (which was used to hide Sarah Jessica Parker’s pregnancy during filming). However, Sarah Jessica revealed in a 2022 interview with Vogue that the bag was actually fake.
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It wasn’t just Netflix. There were many reasons why Blockbuster went out of business. One of the reasons was the popularity of DVDs. Until the advent of DVD, studios relied on the movie rental market as their primary method of generating revenue from the home entertainment market. Blockbuster accounted for nearly 50% of that revenue. To ensure that both sides benefit, the studio will give video rental chains an exclusive outlet for new films before selling them to the general public.
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And finally, Blockbuster had the opportunity to buy Netflix and turned it down. But I wasn’t looking to buy it from a video rental chain. At the time, Netflix was struggling financially and hoped Blockbuster would acquire it.
