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TIL For production of 'The Bellboy ' (1960) Jerry Lewis was actor and director, so he invented a system of multiple cameras and monitors enabling him to act, review the performance, and reshoot immediately. Lewis received the Golden Light Technical Achievement award for the invention.

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d69Z TIL the longest game of telephone (Chinese whispers) started with “Together we can make a world of difference” and turned into “Everybody is evil” and then eventually just “Haaaaaa!”.
kJ9D4 TIL in 1914 student William Bowlus and several other upperclassmen entered a freshman's room to haze the occupants, however one of the five freshman in there shot Bowlus in the abdomen, killing him. But the men refused to identify which one had fired the shot and a grand jury declined to indict.
grMe8 TIL that uterus transplantations are possible. For instance, in 2019 two births took place in Germany after a successful transplantation. The receiving women suffered from a syndrome called Müllerian agenesis and were born without a vaginal tract.
5V81B TIL that plane crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo on 25 August 2010, was caused by a smuggled crocodile becoming loose. The resulting panic caused a shift in the centre of gravity leading to loss of control. Only 1 passenger and the crocodile survived
N7BoE TIL that in ancient Hawaiʻi, men and women ate meals separately and women weren't allowed to eat certain foods. King Kamehameha II removed all religious laws that and performed a symbolic act by eating with the women in 1819. This is when the lūʻau parties were first created.