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TIL that Dorothy's line to the Scarecrow 'I think I'll miss you most of all' is a holdover from the original script where she and the farmhand played the same actor had a romance

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m1a7E TIL that Windows 95 saved Southwest Airlines. When the CrowdStrike software glitch caused computers around the world to crash in 2024, Southwest was able to continue flying when rival airlines were grounded because it still uses Windows 95, which CrowdStrike didn't affect.
MnNA TIL The crown Princess of Japan, Masako, lived abroad in the US, became a polyglot, and studied at Harvard. Along with knowing Japanese and English, she was in her school’s French Club and won an award for her German poetry. To top it off, she was also involved in the production of MAS*H.
VBNy4 TIL Monica Seles won 8 tennis Grand Slams by the age of 19. In 1993, an obsessed fan of Seles's main rival, Steffi Graf, ran onto court with a knife and stabbed Seles in the back. Although she eventually returned to tennis, Seles only won 1 additional Grand Slam for the remainder of her career.
BgLdb TIL that the cloth placed over the backs of chairs in buses and planes is called "antimacassar" and it has its name from Macassar oil used for greasing hair back in 19th century. The cloth was there to protect the furniture from it.
BrRLb TIL in the Breaking Bad episode “Ozymandias”, the show's producers secured special permission from the Hollywood guilds to delay the credits (which would normally appear after the main title sequence) until 19 minutes into the episode, in order to preserve the impact of the beginning scene.