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4kBpo TIL Michael Keaton's breakthrough 1982 movie Night Shift was conceived after producers found a New York Times news story about a prostitution ring run from a city morgue
4XxBR TIL disposable diapers are the third largest individual constituent of municipal solid waste and need at least 500 years to decompose.
W7D7L TIL Festival of the Sacred Pitcher(Kumbh Mela) is an important Hindu pilgrimage, celebrated approximately every 4 or 12 years in India, correlated with the partial or full revolution of Jupiter. It is the largest peaceful gathering of people in the world.
ymJv TIL 19 Ph.D’s were given an incorrect formula for determining the volume of a sphere and asked to verify it by filling the sphere with water and measuring the volume of the water, all but one clung to the incorrect formula despite empirical observations.
ANDpg TIL that the Channel Tunnel was originally proposed in 1802 and construction was attempted in 1880. Two tunnels were dug but the project was scrapped due to fears of invasion. The tunnels and the boring machine still exist under the Channel.