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TIL construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which was built with the help of pressurised caissons (a watertight retaining structure), resulted in numerous workers being either killed or permanently injured by decompression sickness or caisson disease named after this design.

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G9aN TIL the Scrubs episode which poked fun at multi-camera sitcoms won an Emmy for “Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing”.
4kdRJ TIL a Dutch minesweeper disguised itself as an Island in WW2 and successfully snuck past the Japanese Imperial Navy in the Java Sea
E1Xnd TIL in the original Star Wars Trilogy, despite being told by Luke to 'stay on the ship', R2D2 never follows his commands. Later, in the prequel trilogy, the last thing Anakin says to R2D2 was to stay on the ship, which he does. Never seeing Anakin again.
7rnVX TIL that people visiting China are forced to install a piece of malware on their phones that gives all of their text messages as well as other pieces of data to the authorities.
OGLR6 TIL that Shangri-La is a real place, after China renamed Zhongdian in 2001 after the mythical land depicted in the 1933 English novel Lost Horizon, hoping to promote tourism in the area