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TIL: New York Macy’s has an escalator made of wood … and is still in operation!

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kOLaW TIL that "The Mandalorian" is shot primarily inside 'The Volume', a large array of LED screens that allow the CGI backgrounds to be filmed live, creating realistic settings and shadows.
A48g TIL instead of making a film about Iraq or Darfur, Stallone made Rambo 4 (2008) about “lesser-known” Myanmar military atrocities
b0ej TIL in two studies, subjects induced to exchange mutual unbroken gaze for 2 min with a stranger of the opposite sex reported increased feelings of passionate love for each other.
dK0K TIL that “Ugly Laws” in the US banned many disabled people from appearing in public until the 1970s.
jNnAn TIL around 140000 men were convicted under Paragraph 175, a law in German Criminal Code penalising homosexuality that lasted from 1871 to... 1994. Also, "criminals" that were in Nazi camps due to their homosexuality, weren't released from camps after liberation and their "sentence" were still valid.