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TIL Philadelphia Threw a WWI Parade That Gave Thousands of Onlookers the Flu

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9Yak7 TIL in 1987, production on the film Apt Pupil began with 17-year-old Rick Schroder cast as the lead. After ten weeks of filming, production suffered from lack of funds and was put on hold. A year later, Schroder had aged too much for the film to work and 40 minutes of usable footage was abandoned.
j6g9j TIL to move partially completed airplane fuselages, Airbus uses a custom-built giant plane called the Beluga Super Transporter
WkDYX TIL about NUFORC, the National UFO Reporting Center, which receives now hundreds of reported sightings each month. Here’s an interesting one I found from 1955:
Xdn6 TIL the phrase"cold shoulder"stems from a particular way to serve food to an unwanted guest.In this case “cold shoulder” was the serving of an inferior cut of meat, namely a"cold shoulder of mutton"to an uninvited guest, as opposed to serving a hot meal that was fresh out of the oven to an invitee.
bop9 TIL of Shin Dong-hyuk, a man who escaped the North Korean Concentration Camp he was born and raised in.