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TIL During the 1970’s an amazing experiment was undertaken where several families lived in an Iron Age village for fifteen months, the footage taken was later turned into a TV documentary

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788EZ TIL that the 1993 film 'Sleepless in Seattle' inspired a real-life love story between a widower in Seattle who appeared on The Oprah Winfrey show and a Californian woman who responded through letters. They have been together for 28 years.
nW4Q9 TIL: Henry Ford introduced the $5 work day in 1914, doubling his avg employees wages overnight and investing $10m of profits back into his employees coining the term "profit sharing" which helped launch the American middle class and was seen as "an honest wage for an honest days work."
woAw6 TIL of Vanessa Lawrence, a woman who was on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center (North Tower) as Flight 11 crashed into it, and survived with only a cut on her foot
DJOr TIL that in Batman’s early comics, he used guns and killed criminals
OGeXX TIL the Maury Povich Show was filmed in the same location as Jerry Springer and Steve Wilkos, and during backstage scenes, props from the other shows were visible.