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TIL when they first opened the ride Pirates of the Caribbean in Disneyland the design team was disappointed with the look of the fake bones they used so they used real skeletal remains instead and there is allegedly still a real human skull in the ride today

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vR4D Today I learned that, prior to the advent of Christianity, the LGBT were esteemed by Native Americans as having two spirits.
Y8OZ TIL it is estimated that 1 in 5 victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima were Korean conscripts, brought over as forced labor.
LkXxv TIL the tallest cactus ever recorded was over 6 stories tall.
8xYb TIL Union Army general John Sedgwick once said to his men under enemy fire: “Why are you dodging like this? They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.” He was shot dead instantly.
BjLK TIL that, due to a wartime shortage of copper, the Manhattan Project borrowed almost 15,000 tons of silver from the US Treasury to make wiring for the electromagnets in isotope-separating mass spectrometers. The wire, worth over a billion dollars at the time, was removed and returned after the war.