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TIL Steven Speilberg denied a salary for directing Schindler's List and refuses to autograph any materials related to the film.

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QJ0k6 TIL that William Morris, famous for the arts and crafts movement in decor, manufactured wallpaper containing arsenic and dismissed anu claims that arsenic made people ill. He was also the owner of a major arsenic manufacturing plant.
Oo00g TIL about Nelly Bly, America’s first investigative journalist who faked being crazy and was sent to an asylum, where she experienced misdiagnosis, abuse, and harassment. In 1887, “Behind Asylum Bars” was printed. A grand jury investigation soon forced NYC to allocate more money for the mentally ill.
rRGD4 TIL that rats have been used to locate over 100k landmines and explosives. They're effective because they're too light to trip the mines.
awp6y TIL that Ireland’s biggest football stadium uses Harris hawks to control the skies so seagulls won’t enter the stadium during the matches or after the clean up.
e0XX5 Today I learned of Saturn, the crocodile who survived WW2 in the inhospitable streets of Berlin after intense bombing, until dying recently at the ripe old age of 84.