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TIL that in most elevators, the close-door button doesn’t work. It’s just a placebo. Press away, friends.

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D9xj TIL the coelacanth, a fish thought to have gone extinct 66 million years ago until a fisherman caught one in 1938, is more closely related to reptiles and mammals than it is to the vast majority of fish.
7neP TIL that Peter Pan will never go out of copyright in the UK, because of a special law that was passed in 1987 which distributes all royalties from the story and related works to a children’s hospital in London.
gWnW TIL that the creators of the movie “Alien” purposely littered penis-shaped objects (including the alien itself), and references to rape throughout the movie
KYrxJ TIL: Hawaii is in Oceania not North America
l7MRK TIL that Claudia Christian (Babylon 5) was one of the first TV actors in the industry to be shown how computers were being used to generate visual FX in that new field of the 1990's.