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TIL Steven Spielberg declined to direct the Harry Potter movies because they weren’t challenging, and he thought they should have been animated

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kO0Em TIL of Heinz Heydrich. Brother of Reinhard Heydrich who was a key architect of the Holocaust. When Heinz learned of the Final Solution he helped many Jews escape their certain deaths by forging identity papers.
kVk7 TIL immediately after the Challenger explosion, shares of every corporation involved in the Space Shuttle dropped. But by the end of the day, most had rebounded; only Morton Thiokol remained low. This was months before the official investigation found Thiokol to be responsible for the disaster.
ljjr TIL that Winston Churchill’s first thought when Pearl Harbour was attacked was “We have won the war”.
ZpDpa TIL: USC removed their John Wayne exhibit because of the bigoted remarks he had made during his life.
rN5BW TIL that only Australians do the dance to Tina Turner's Nutbush City Limits.