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TIL That it’s theoretically possible to build an airship using a vacuum instead of helium

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4rPN TIL when Google was losing a lot of female employees because they weren’t coming back to work after giving birth, Google lengthened maternity leave to 5 months from 3, and changed it from partial pay to full pay, and the amount of women who didn’t come back after maternity leave dropped by 50%.
ADYgo TIL for the brutal Omaha Beach scene in ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Spielberg hired several dozen army amputees with prosthetic limbs so that he could have their arms and legs blown off in a more realistic fashion. More than $11 million was spent and 1,000 extras used for the infamous scene.
xVVXD TIL despite repeated warnings by safety inspectors to install smoke alarms and sprinklers, the Haunted Castle at Six Flags Great Adventure had burned down in 1984 killing 8 teenagers.
j54R TIL that an investment bank that lost 66 employees on 9/11 has paid the college fees of 54 children of their fallen co-workers.
9wRQr TIL that piñatas originated in China. The concept spread to Europe where it was more associated with Lent. When the Spanish came to the New World, the piñata came with it, but the people there already had their own versions.