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TIL Spielberg began work on a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind called 'Night Skies' about a family living in a house being attacked by aliens which then split into both E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Poltergeist. In Gremlins, you'll see a theater marquee listing abandoned names for E.T.

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RxAj TIL that a girl name Genie was isolated from society at birth. When she was rescued 13 years later, she had the mental age of a one year old.
b9XKp TIL in 2007, an English woman cremated her missing son, only for him to turn up alive and well a day later. It turned out that the police had mistakenly identified another dead man as her son, and she herself had become convinced after they confirmed his “distinctive scars”, such as a brain injury.
8aRj8 TIL, the unconfirmed record for fastest moving manmade object is a manhole cover propelled by a nuclear detonation. A high-speed camera trained on the lid caught only one frame of it moving upward before it vanished—which means it was moving about 125,000 miles per hour
6DGQ TIL that ‘TASER’ is actually an acronym for 'Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle’, named by the creator Jack Cover after his favorite childhood character and book.
PGjw TIL Alice Cooper’s 5th studio album, 1972’s “School’s Out”, caused a national stir because the vinyl records were sold and packaged in a pair of panties.