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TIL the Coens Brothers, Glenn Ficarra, and Terry Zwigoff first pitched "Bad Santa" to Universal Studios, which rejected it on the grounds that "[i]t was the most foul, disgusting, misogynistic, anti-Christmas, anti-children thing we could imagine." Miramax instead financed and distributed the movie.

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R5Dd6 TIL due to the failure of the Boeing 2707, a Concorde competitor, and a downturn in general aviation in the 1970s, Boeing fired 60,000 employees. So many people left Seattle that a billboard was placed near the airport that read "Will the last person leaving Seattle turn out the lights?"
nWeYo TIL that American Sign Language (ASL) has drawn significantly on Plains Indigenous Sign Language (PISL) a one-time common language of Native Americans of the Central and Midwestern US.
Z8nAp TIL of Krystyna Skarbek, a Polish women who became the first female field operative of the British secret service. She was also an inspiration of Ian Fleming’s character Vesper Lynd, of the famous James Bond novels.
PNgg TIL that Homo floresiensis, an extinct 3.5 ft tall hominin that used stone tools, is believed to have lived alongside modern human as recently as 12,000 years ago.
XEVkk TIL that 21 detached human feet have been found in the Salish Sea (near Vancouver and Seattle) between 2007 and 2019. The odds of finding just two dismembered feet in the same location is a million to one. No one definitively knows what caused this phenomenon.