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GM15 TIL Walt Disney’s original vision for EPCOT was to build a constantly transforming, livable, planned community devoted to the happiness of its residents and that would solve many of the ills of city life. He called it the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, or EPCOT for short.
X0JBR TIL Teeth blackening was popular around the world in times past and still practiced by a few
KO5ME TIL that the treadmill was first introduced as a Prison Rehabilitation Device, meant to cause the incarcerated to suffer and learn from their sweat. When Oscar Wilde was sentenced to 2 years in prison in 1895, he was forced to use a treadmill as part of his punishment.
9L57 TIL a staff writer for The New Yorker came to the office every day from 1964 to his death in 1996 – and never published a single story
Ll40 TIL despite having only approximately 16 minutes of screen time in Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkins won the Academy Award for Best Lead Actor in 1991.