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TIL Overall crime in NYC is down 80% since 1990

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dDlxQ TIL cigarette smoking in the US went from <5% in 1900 compared to 42% in 1965
wo6dW TIL that Michael Bay was originally attached to direct the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan. However, he later left the project because he couldn't find a way to approach the material.
grYa9 TIL That The Thing (1982 film) didn't have any CGI, all the effects were created by a special effects team with rubber, animatronics and assorted other tools, it was one of the last pre CGI movies.
m1g5o TIL that when the Britannic, which was the sister ship of the Titanic, struck a German mine and began to sink, two lifeboats full of passengers left the ship without permission and were pulled into the vessel’s rotating propellers.
woKW1 TIL about the "catapult-able cockpit", created by Romanian inventor Anastase Dragomir and successfully tested in 1929 at the Paris-Orly Airport, which featured a parachuted chair that was ejected from an aircraft. It was the first modern layout for an ejection seat, later perfected during WWII.