TIL that up until 1960, people went to the movies in a completely different and confusing way.
1.The oldest material on Earth is actuallyolder than Earth itself.
In 1969, the Murchison meteorite fell near Murchison, Australia, breaking apart into several pieces.
Around a 100 kilograms of the meteorite were sent to different scientific institutions around the world to be studied.
Making them both older than the formation of the sun and the Earth.
The production was an experiment between GE and a station in Schenectady,New York.
3.Thefirst gay kissin a film was in 1927’sWings.
4.There were still Civil War veterans alive during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration.
The ceremony was also captured onfilmand shown on newsreels in movie theaters.
5.The last person to collect a monthly pension from the Civil War died in 2020.
In case you were wondering, she collected $73.13 monthly from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
6.Before the 1980s, the Roswell UFO crash was basically an unknown event.
In the early ’80s,the National Enquirerand the bookThe Roswell Incidentreintroduced the event and interest in it.
7.Sitcoms are a lot older than you might think.
The veryfirst sitcomthat aired in the US started in 1947 and was calledMary Kay and Johnny.
8.Color televisionexistedin the ’50s thetechnologyfor it had been in development since the ’40s.
But, few people owned color TV sets because they were very pricey.
Directors and studios hated that, but it’s how people were used to going to the movies.
However, that posed a problem forPsycho.
10.Walt Disneyhated howAlice in Wonderlandturned out and refused to re-release the movie during his lifetime.
11.George Atkinson opened thefirst video rental storein the world in LA in 1977.
Within a year, he had turned his rental business into a franchise called Video Station.
By all accounts, she wouldgo on to regretever agreeing to get involved.
16.It wasn’t just Netflix; there werevarious reasonswhy Blockbuster ended up going out of business.
One reason was thepopularity of DVDs.
17.And lastly, yes, Blockbuster had a chance tobuy Netflixand turned it down.
However, it wasn’t that the video rental chain was looking to purchase it.
At the time, Netflix was in financial trouble and hoping that Blockbuster would buy them out.
