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TIL Production of the film Gone Girl was shut down for four days when Ben Affleck refused to wear a NY Yankees cap in a scene.

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6e6Z TIL that in 1909, the employees of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company went on strike, demanding a shorter work week as well as unlocked doors and sturdier fire escaped. They were denied the latter demands, and as a result many of the same workers died in the Triangle fire two years later.
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