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TIL that The Empire State Building has its own postcode

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8b5X TIL Howard the Duck was such a massive failure that producer George Lucas was forced to sell the CGI department of LucasFilms to Steve Jobs, which became Pixar Animation Studios.
rRD00 TIL although the design of Ursula in The Little Mermaid is based in an octopus, she was drawn with six tentacles instead of eight to reduce animation costs
ODm7 TIL That before the widespread use of toilet paper it was common to use corn cobs and sometimes mussel shells for post-defecation hygiene.
oe88 TIL that the trajectory of the first American manned spaceflight was calculated by an African-American woman. She was so good at computations that she was asked to check the work of the computers when they were first used by NASA to calculate John Glenn’s flight path.
8OnL TIL approximately 80% of “close door” elevator buttons aren’t connected to anything.