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TIL in 1979, a woman became ill on Space Mountain and couldn't exit the rollercoaster. While waiting for help, she was accidentally sent on the ride a second time by a different set of employees. She slipped into a coma and died one week later.

5Ywlr TIL That when the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl in 2010 the locker room was initially completely silent. That is, until someone yelled, ‘It’s the fuckin’ Catalina Wine Mixer!’ from the movie Step Brothers.
78WaZ TIL Darwin, Australia was named after Charles Darwin but before he published his theory of evolution. Captain Wickham sailed with Darwin during HMS Beagle's first voyage, then he named the area after his old crewmate during the second voyage when he surveyed Northern Australia.
v1G8j TIL that Christian Bale, who has a British accent, did all of his promotional interviews for Batman Begins in an American accent because he felt Batman was "such an American character" and he did not want audiences asking "What the hell is going on? Why do we have an English Batman?"
KYOG4 TIL 20% of the population of the Six Nations tribes fought in WW2. The Choctaw language baffled German codebreakers, and Iroquois, who had officially declared war during WW1 and never made peace, officially declared war on Germany again during WW2.
ADZ7o TIL of Dorothy Steel, the 91 yr old who made her big film acting debut as merchant tribal elder, who advises Chadwick Boseman's character in Marvel's "Black Panther." She sent in her audition tape and Marvel exec's said "Who is that old lady? We want her." She began her acting career at 88.