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5YPlk TIL according to a study in 2012, 45% of Americans said the holiday season brings so much financial pressure, they would prefer to skip it altogether.
gaaA TIL Walt Disney hired 11 dwarfs for the premiere of Pinocchio to dress up like the puppet and greet children. Left with a day’s worth of food and wine, by mid-afternoon there were 11 naked dwarfs running around screaming obscenities at the crowd.
4XAnX TIL that goosebumps are a vestigial reflex (a reflex that has lost its function / purpose through evolution), which would raise the hair of humans to both trap body heat and scare off predators by appearing larger than usual. It is due to this that we get goosebumps when cold or scared.
gMYnW TIL in October 2012, around 25 families showed up to the Nottingham Cineworld theater to watch Madagascar 3. Due to a technical error with the projector, they wound up watching the opening scene of Paranormal Activity 4 instead, causing children as young as 5-years-old to start crying as a result