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TIL Alfred Hitchcock shot no more footage than absolutely necessary, on the irrefutable premise that the studio could hardly throw anything out of his movies if there was nothing else to put in.

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wLan6 TIL Persistence of a 12-year old boy led to clearing the name of the USS Indianapolis' captain more than 50 years after the tragedy. The Congress passed a Sense of Congress resolution exonerating the captain.
mxQBv TIL November 14, 1910 Eugene Ely made the first airplane takeoff from a warship in a Curtiss pusher airplane from the cruiser USS Birmingham at Hampton Roads, VA. Ely later completes the first landing and takeoff from a ship in 1911. His flights marked the beginning of carrier aviation.
m1VVR TIL The ~1mm large animal known as Trichoplax can regenerate from just a handfull of cells and if its chopped up, the individual pieces will try to find each other and join back together.
9wVyX TIL Ruth Snyder was executed by electric chair on January 12, 1928. She was secretly photographed mid-execution, which became the first photo of an execution by electric chair printed in media.
9YnM TIL the actress who plays Phyllis in The Office was once an NFL cheerleader