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TIL that Harper Goff designed much of the original Disneyland, sets for classic films (Casablanca, Captain Blood, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), and the submarines in Fantastic Voyage and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Captain Nemo’s baroque Nautilus helped inspire the Steampunk movement.

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ZlLY TIL Wellington R. Burt, 1831-1919, did not leave his $100,000,000 estate to his children. His will had a “spite clause” which specified to wait until all his children and 21 years after his last grandchild while he was still alive had died. The estate was settled in 2011.
Q75M TIL Big steel vessels have a magnetic signature, due to the polarity of electrons lining up to the earths magnetic field when the steel was heated in manufacture through welding etc, and can be used to locate where the vessel was made.
bVk7 TIL Microsoft sued a high school student named Mike Rowe after he registered the domain MikeRoweSoft.com. He eventually gave up the domain for an Xbox (among other things). He later sold legal documents from the case on eBay for $1,037 as “a piece of Internet history.”
QN9A9 Today I learned that astronauts heading to the International Space Station (ISS) must learn Russian as a second language.
QJMLd TIL: Patients respond significantly better to placebo medications when told that they cost $1500 a pill.