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TIL About Heritage USA, a Christian themed amusement park which was the third most most attended theme park in the US at 6 million visitors annually. Died an abrupt death due to the Bakker scandal.

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aw89L TIL the teeth of thousands of young men being killed on Europe’s battlefields were taken by scavengers and shipped back to England to be used as donor's teeth. This was seen as patriotic.
xVWgg TIL William Randolph Hearst went to great lengths to shut down the production of Citizen Kane, going so far as to purportedly arranging for a naked woman to jump into director Orson Welles' arms at his hotel room; a photographer would also be hiding to take a "salacious" photo of them.
9D7r TIL that a giant “WELCOME TO CLEVELAND” sign on a rooftop in the flight path of a Milwaukee airport has been causing “panic and outrage” to passengers arriving by air for over 37 years. The creator’s reasoning: “Living in the world is not a dress rehearsal. You better have fun with it.”
LeVQ TIL a woman filing for public assistance failed several DNA tests to prove maternity of her children. She was taken to court and risked losing custody. It was later discovered she had absorbed her twin in the womb and has two different sets of DNA in other parts of her body.
Ego0P TIL that in World War I, a homing pigeon named Cher Ami was shot by the Germans, but managed to keep flying and carry the message of help. Thanks to this, 194 American soldiers were saved