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TIL Harrison Ford flew to France to give Roman Polanski his Oscar

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vPDML TIL about "swimming pool filter-induced transrectal evisceration", i.e. when people (usually children) have their intestines sucked-out of their ass by swimming pool drains
4WRw TIL BMW was forced to recall a female-voiced navigation system on its 5 Series cars in the late 1990s after being flooded with calls from German men saying they refused to take directions from a woman.
XWwR TIL that Emilio Marcos Palma is the first documented person born on the continent of Antarctica.
e01mg TIL that in 1963, the United States considered to use 520 nuclear bombs to carve out a 160 miles (260 km) long waterway through Israel's Negev desert.
e08D6 TIL open-plan offices can lead to increases in health problems in officeworkers. The design increases noise polution and removes privacy which increases stress. Ultimately the design is related to lower job satisfaction and higher staff turnover.