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TIL Mexico City’s Day of the Dead parade was invented for the James Bond film "Spectre" and then adopted by the city so tourists wouldn't be disappointed.

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GNJj TIL The front room of a house was often used to display the dead for funerals and would often be called the Death Room. As this practice fell out of favor, the name of this room changed to “Living Room”
NXwbP TIL that I learned that "Passamaquoddy" is not just a fictional town from the movie "Pete's Dragon", but also the name Native American/First Nations people who live in northeastern North America.
mpwP TIL that during renovations in the 1990s, Paisley Abbey in Scotland replaced 12 of its gargoyles. One of them was purposely shaped like a xenomorph from the movie Alien.
XE9PP TIL about Operational security. An OPSec need not only be used for military action, Life is a big OPSec whenever we want to stop or start a routine, habit or behavior we unconsciously run an OPSec.
p87kN TIL that, in the 1980's, Israel operated a beach resort in Sudan, which was actually a Mossad front allowing them to evacuate Sudanese and Ethiopian Jews to Israel.