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TIL that before raised scaffolds were used for hangings, a condemned person’s relatives could pull on their legs in the hope of occasioning a quicker death.

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1PG7 TIL Fiat’s original car factory was designed so that each car would progress upwards story by story as it was assembled until it was finalized at the top, where it would be tested on a rooftop test track.
OoMyL TIL the classic bald eagle screech sound effect we hear in most movies and tv shows is actually the sound of a red tailed hawk screech dubbed over. Bald Eagles make more of a little cackling type of a laugh sound.
obKK TIL of Maurice Wilson, who in 1934 died in an attempt to climb Mount Everest by flying halfway around the world, crash-landing on the mountain, and then walking to the summit despite having no experience in either mountaineering or aviation.
W5xN TIL for the film Dogma, Jason Mewes memorized not only his own dialogue but the entire screenplay, because he “didn’t want to piss off that Rickman dude”
D1Xrr TIL that Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book was written for St. Nicholas Magazine, a publication for children edited by Mary Mapes Dodge. Dodge, author of Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, asked Kipling to contribute something and although he'd never written for children before, he said he'd try.