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TIL Showman and businessman PT Barnum was frustrated with how long people lingered in his museum’s exhibits. He posted signs that said 'This Way to the Egress'. He knew most of the visitors would follow them not knowing 'Egress' meant 'Exit'. They couldn’t re-enter without paying the entry fee again

pY1m4 TIL In All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989) Burt Reynolds struggled over 60 takes to record Charlie saying Goodbye to Anne-Marie. Voiced by 10yo Judith Barsi, she was murdered after recording. In the final take, holding a photo of her, Burt can audibly be heard breaking down, Saying goodbye one last time.
Rjjj TIL “Spirit Halloween” shops that pop up around Halloween are owned by Spencer Gifts and make up nearly half of the company’s revenue in the two months they’re open each year.
rRnPe TIL Felix Bloch was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for "development of new ways and methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements." He left Germany in 1933 and went on to become the first professor for theoretical physics at Stanford
VMmkp TIL The last known living survivor of the Atlantic Slave Trade died in 1940 at the age of 83.
NXD7b TIL in 2011 an emperor penguin named Happy Feet arrived in New Zealand after swimming about 2K miles from Antarctica. He is the second emperor penguin ever to be found in NZ (first was in 1967). At the beach he ate sand, likely mistaking it for snow, and needed 4.4 lbs of it removed from his stomach