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TIL that a pilot and copilot of a flight are adviced not to eat the same meals in case one causes food poisoning.

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Wkd6A TIL in 1959, rather than integrate, Prince Edward County in Virginia closed all of their public schools for FIVE YEARS. White children attended state-subsidized "private schools". No provision was made for educating the county's black children.
arMM TIL Canada’s Constitution was permanently stained red after a student poured paint on it in protest. He was sentenced to only 3 months in jail, to be served on weekends, as the court believed his actions had shown that he was “an excellent student, with a possibly brilliant artistic future.”
Wkl6B TIL that there were two versions of the horror movie Dracula (1931) filmed at the same time. An English version (the Bela Lugosi classic) was filmed during the day and at night, a different set of actors filmed a Spanish version using the exact the same sets.
DQe9J TIL, in The Blair Witch Project, the reason they never show the witch on camera is that the cameraman forgot to pan to the left
D1lWV TIL the first president of the United States, George Washington died in an incident of phlebotomy aka bloodletting gone wrong. In order to treat his throat infection, his three doctors could not agree on his diagnosis. They ended up draining eight pints of blood.