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TIL In the Helen keller biopic Miracle Worker (1962), for the dining room battle scene, Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke wore padding beneath their costumes to prevent serious bruising during the intense physical skirmish. This nine-minute sequence required three cameras and took five days to film.

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R5w1j TIL that the Vietnamese version of Cinderella, the end has Ciderella boil her stepsister to death, turns what remains of her into sauce and sends it to her stepmother to eat. She enjoyed it so much that she ate it all until she found the skull and died of shock.
m1LXM TIL about Theseus, a robotic mouse created by Claude Shannon in the 1950s, which could learn to navigate mazes using telephone relay switches, marking one of the first instances of machine learning. Theseus helped researchers better understand routing in telephone networks of that era.
P1eMG TIL that one of the major factors that made Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, as the choice for piloting Vostok 6 in June 1963, was that she proved lucky in the timing of her menstrual cycles earlier that month.
aE5Z TIL the first space shuttle Enterprise was originally due to named Constitution. After a letter-writing campaign from Star Trek fans, President Ford said he was “partial to the name” and told NASA to change it
neV6r TIL that ancient Egyptian cats enjoyed a sacred status because of their utility as domesticated animals against various pests, mice, and snakes. The cat goddess Bastet was popular and the temple of Bastet was erected in her honour. The cats were mummified after death and buried in the temple.