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TIL that movie studios take out insurance in case the movie is delayed getting produced or has location issues

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J1BY1 TIL a 1977 PSA film named "Apaches" was shown in primary schools to promote safety on farms. Six children in the film die in farm-related accidents throughout the film as they pretend to be "Apache warriors." The end credits list multiple real life victims of farm accidents.
Wk8eY TIL that before it was published in 1954, ‘Lord of the Flies’ was rejected 21 times.
J7w1 TIL that soldiers erroneously believed that the Ace in a pack of Bicycle playing cards was a symbol of death to the Viet Cong army and would scatter them around the jungle.
w4ME TIL that the Wadi-Al-Hitan site in Egypt contains hundreds of fossilized whales
LQL0m TIL that in Tiger Woods 99 for the PlayStation 1, in the first 100,000 copies of the game had an Easter egg that a developer snuck in when put into a computer, it contained a DAT. file that would play the first ever South Park short made. These copies were later recalled by EA