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TIL in the film “The Shining”, filming the ‘Heeeere’s Johnny!’ scene took 3 days and 80 doors.

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8aErP TIL that in 1906 Eleanor Roosevelt bought a chicken-wire cage to hang out the window of her New York City townhouse for her first child, Anna, to nap in—a practice known as “airing” for city dwelling children
R7Rk9 TIL Israel merged the front half of a damaged rare 2 seat F-15 with the back half of an obsolete retired single seat F15. When they asked Boeing for advice Boeing never responded thinking the Israeli air force was joking.
G405 TIL in 1974 the U.S. National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals advised, “no new [prisons] should be built and existing institutions for juveniles should be closed…There is overwhelming evidence that [prisons] create crime rather than prevent it.”
grxK8 TIL Dashrath Manjhi, the "Mountain Man," spent 22 years carving a 110-meter path through a mountain using just a hammer and chisel. Motivated by grief after his wife died due to a long route to the hospital, he shortened the journey from 55 km to 15 km.
5YpLB TIL that there is a global Sand crisis and that there is an actual Sand mafia.