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TIL Disneyland employees planted an entire forest shaped like Mickey Mouse’s head

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pY6WG TIL in 1965 part of the training to be Special Forces Medic in Vietnam included the Dog Lab at Fort Bragg where they had to shoot a Dog (The Patient) with a .22 (in the thigh) and then successfully treat the wound
wLE8J TIL that the mostly-improvised film "Waiting For Guffman" took only 29 days to shoot but over 18 months to edit. The long editing process was due to the fact that over 90 hours of footage was filmed, which needed to be whittled down to 86 minutes.
WkMA9 TIL that it took 87 years to build Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, from 1163-1250.
WkdLd TIL In 1974, after Congress threatened to withhold funding for states that didn't set a highway speed limit of 55, Montana complied by enacting a $5 fine for exceeding it. Some drivers kept wads of $5 bills ready to hand an officer when stopped.
a69y TIL Georgre Ohr, the “mad potter of Biloxi” had an 18" mustache that he curled behind his ears and tied behind his head. No one bought his wacky pottery for the ridiculous asking price of $25. Some of his work is worth up to 25 million today, as he predicted it someday would be.