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TIL Real skeletons were used in the making of the original "Poltergeist" film (1982)

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b9QB9 TIL that hospitals give newborns hats to wear to prevent them losing body heat through their head.
45Wb TIL the gender of crocodiles is determined not by genetics, but by the temperature in which the eggs are kept in during the incubation period.
grON8 TIL since only five triple rainbows had been reported to science in the previous 250 years, many scientists had written them off as myths. The first photographic proof of a triple rainbow did not appear in a scholarly publication until 2011.
nWBKr TIL that zookeepers show giant pandas panda porn to stimulate them and help them breed.
g5MA TIL of Andrew Kehoe who committed the deadliest mass murder at a U.S. elementary school. May 18, 1927. It Included his wife, 6 adults and 37 children. In the aftermath, investigators found a wooden sign Kehoe had apparently wired to a fence on his farm that read, “Criminals are made, not born.”