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TIL that Stephen Spielberg held onto the script for Schinlder’s List for a decade before he began filming as he didn’t feel mature or experienced enough to do it justice. During this time, he offered the script to numerous directors including Polanski, Pollack and Scorsese who all turned it down.

kNy4 TIL in 1962, two American geologists found that a large rock face above a Peruvian town could collapse during an earthquake. The Peruvian government ordered the two to retract their work or face prison. Eight years later, an earthquake collapsed the rock face, killing 20,000 of the town’s residents.
X0P7Q TIL according to the National Safety Council: 660 workers died in falls from a higher level in 2014. And while 50% of the falls occurred from 20 feet or lower, 12% were from less than 6 feet.
lLlA TIL that the original EverQuest game made a server called Discord. It was a pvp permadeath full loot server with prizes going to the first few players to hit level 50. The devs openly allowed cheats as well. It was a honeypot server to study cheats and then ban the exploiters after.
XEGoX TIL that in the Second World War two US submarines were sunk by their own torpedoes circling back against them.
0d89v TIL Emperor Tiberius once personally solved a murder case: A senator's wive fell out of a window and after hearing the husband's testimony, Tiberius decided to personally examine the scene, where he discovered evidence of struggle and later reported to the Senate. The husband was found guilty