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TIL that 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' is a prequel to 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' - Temple of Doom is set in 1935, whilst Raiders of the Lost Ark is set in 1936.

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gNVA TIL in 1945 an airplane crashed into the Empire State Building, injuring elevator operator Betty Oliver. When rescuers attempted to lower her on an elevator, the cable snapped, plunging her 75 stories down. She survived the fall, and to this day holds the record for longest survived elevator fall.
KW5a TIL that the French word for wooden shoe, ‘sabot’ is the probable root of the word sabotage: and refers to the tactic by early Dutch unionists of throwing sabots into the gears of factory or farm machinery, effectively stopping work until the equipment could be repaired.