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TIL George Lucas saved Walter Murch's job as director of Return to Oz (1985). After Disney fired Murch, Lucas flew to London to urge Disney to reinstall him by using himself as collateral. He said that if Murch failed to deliver, he'd finish the film himself which got Disney to rehire his friend.

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V8kZ TIL players of an online game called Foldit resolved the structure of an enzyme in just three weeks.
OK1L TIL the world’s longest-running laboratory experiment “demonstrates the fluidity and high viscosity of pitch, a derivative of tar once used for waterproofing boats.” In 1930 pitch was left in a glass funnel to drip out and has only dropped 9 times: about once every 10 years.
9YX9B TIL: Said to be the highest-elevation road in the US, Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park in places is over 12,100 feet up. In 1931, the National Park Service head said. "You will have the whole sweep of the Rockies before you in all directions."
DQalj TIL that the eight Ivy League colleges (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale) are not actually a sports league, but rather an athletic conference.
NjwP TIL (When looking back at how big France has played apart in American history) Congress wore black and mourning badges for 30 days after Lafayette’s death, the same treatment Washington got.