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TIL that filmmakers and prop creators don't actually do their research

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nWvnG TIL that vanilla bean farmers tattoo their vanilla beans to avoid theft, using a sharp toothpick-like stick piercing dots in the outer pod in the shape of their initials.
5Vy4D TIL about the Native American "Code Talkers," and their instrumental role they played during WWII. They would relay important and secret messages over radio in their native languages, which could not be deciphered by Nazi or Japanese interceptors.
R7eJ8 TIL using Teflon and other non-stick cookware can kill birds. After new pans are heated for the first time, birds can die within a matter of hours.
lZ11 TIL teenagers Jonason Pauley and Jesse Perrotta spent 2 years recreating the entire movie “Toy Story” shot-for-shot using stop-motion and marionette puppetry. The project required making two rooms in Pauley’s parent’s house into the ‘Toy Story’ set and repurposing toys from Goodwill. [Video in link]
1aoND TIL that HIV/AIDS used to be called "the 4H disease" by the CDC since it seemed to affect mostly Homosexuals, Haitians, Heroin users, and hemophiliacs. The disease was also called GRID by the media, which stood for gay- related immune deficiency.