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TIL Walt Disney’s body was NOT cryonically frozen, but rather cremated on December 17, 1966, and his ashes interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

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Wlmo TIL of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, a bridge whose support towers are so tall and far apart that, due to the curvature of the earth, are almost two inches farther apart at the top than the bottom.
BrP8y TIL about Ziph’s Law which says that frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table. The word “the” is the most used word in English, the second most used word is used 1/2 that amount, the third 1/3, and so on. This is true not just for English but all languages.
69EWQ TIL that scavengers are stealing WW2 shipwrecks to sell because the steel in those ships was made before atomic bomb detonations and are free of radiation contamination so it can be used to manufacture sensitive scientific and medical devices.
5YBAn TIL of isolated incidents of humans surviving abnormally high G-forces, most notably the Air Force officer John Stapp, who demonstrated a human can withstand 46.2 G’s. The experiment only went on a few seconds, but for an instant, his body had weighed over 7,700 pounds.
ANkml TIL Richard M. Daley authorized the midnight bulldozing of Meigs Field, a small, downtown, lakefront airport in Chicago. This stranded 16 planes on the ground including several Fire Department helicopters. The FAA fined the city $33,000 for not giving 30 days notice ahead of an airport closure.