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TIL Tim Burton didn’t direct Nightmare Before Christmas, he wrote/produced it. Henry Selick directed it.

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M7RdV TIL General Electric dumped toxic "forever" chemicals into the Hudson River and its CEO, Jack Welch, disputed the EPA's findings that these chemicals are toxic.
WkM9d TIL when the first chimp was launched into space, the button he was trained to press to receive a treat malfunctioned & he received electric shock after electric shock. “I never seen such terror on a chimp’s face,” said his trainer on his return.
lMVA TIL that Humble Oil, which would later become Exxon Mobil, advertised that it sold enough energy in a day to melt 7 million tons of glacier.
OGl71 TIL We Will Rock You by Queen (1977) there is a faster version with heavy metal traits, but after The Works Tour in 1984, it is unknown why they stopped playing
4n6 TIL: One tiger killed 436 people.