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TIL that the dress worn by Katrina at the end of Sleepy Hollow (1999) was just a white silk dress drawn on with magic marker to give it its black stripes.

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7rXB7 TIL after a cremation, you don’t get “ash” back. They take leftover bones and pulverize it into a powder
Y8N7 TIL in Russia many doctors “treat” alcoholism by surgically implanting a small capsule into their patients. The capsules react so severely with alcohol that once the patient touches a single drop, they instantly acquire an excruciating illness of similar intensity to acute heroin withdrawal
XEJrr Today I learned that the last Rosie the Riveter was involuntarily laid off from her job at the age of 95 in 2014.
LR9d TIL Google offered to buy Friendster in 2003 for 30 million dollars. The offer was rejected and is considered to be one of the worst Silicon Valley blunders of all time.
69PZW TIL that four years after the RMS Titanic sunk, its sister ship, the RMS Britannic, also sunk after striking a German mine. Then, in 1918, the RMS Carpathia - known as the the ship that rescued the Titanic’s survivors, also sunk after being torpedoed by a German submarine.