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TIL that Neanderthals weren't the only contemporaries of homo sapiens: At one point there were as many as 4 different hominin species living alongside us

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Z8vdp TIL There was an entire horror movie filmed inside the US Disney parks, without permission. Actors and crew dressed up as tourists and filmed over 2 weeks in each park. Disney chose to ignore the movie, most likely to avoid giving it further attention. It premiered at Sundance.
VBBb4 TIL: Between 1976 and 1977, Salvador Dalí signed 17,500 blank sheets of paper for tarot prints that had not yet been printed. This realization led to a huge increase in forgeries from printers who claimed to have used pre-signed paper for their "authorized" prints after Dali was bedridden.
VBp18 TIL in WWII a killed US service member had a 19% chance of never having their body recovered
yVyRM TIL that Anne Ramsey, best known for her role in Throw Mama From The Train (1987), her slurred speech was due to operations for her throat cancer and was in pain during the whole production. She was nominated for an Oscar. Sadly she died of her throat cancer 6 months after the ceremony.
4XeG6 TIL that “Idaho” was not a Native American word as originally thought but rather a made-up word. “To his horror, he found that he had been the victim of a practical joke. [He]learned, to his surprise, that the name did not mean, "gem of the mountains"...In fact, it did not mean anything at all.”