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You might want to know ! MUSIC/CINEMA

  • Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.

  • The CD was developed by Philips and Sony in 1980

  • Lebanon is the top movie-going country - 35,3 movies per person p.a. China is second with 12,3, followed by Georgia (5,6), India (5), Iceland (4,5), Australia is 6th at 3,9 then New Zealand and the US at just under 3,9.

  • The US has the most cinemas (23,662) while India [the country that produces the most movies - about 800 a year, twice as many as Hollywood] has about 9,000 cinemas and China has approximately 5,000 cinemas. - 300,000 people per cinema.

  • Indian comic actress Manorama has played the most leading roles of any performer in movie history. She began her career in 1958 and in 1985 had appeared in her 1,000th movie.

  • The term "disc jockey" was first used in 1937.

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