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TIL that "TMZ" stands for the Thirty Mile Zone around Los Angeles within which film crews don't get paid overnight expenses

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mxnpx TIL: Van Tassell, Wyoming (Population 14) is the least populous town in the least populous county of the least populous state in the U.S.
lok87 TIL about Christopher Roberts, a classical bassist, who in the 1980s hiked into Papua New Guinea's jungles with his bass and tape recorder. By doing so, he preserved a tribe's rich musical heritage & history, which were being lost because of mining & missionaries.
gAYb TIL: “The film that killed John Wayne”, The Conqueror was shot downwind from the main site for Atomic Testing. of a crew of 200, 91 had died from cancer within 18 years, including The Duke.
N7bW6 TIL that Japan's rail workers use pointing-and-calling, a system of associating one’s tasks with physical movements and vocalizations to prevent errors. It is known to reduce workplace errors by up to 85 percent, according to one 1996 study.
8e7bb TIL that in the first 40 years of the US Interstate Highway System, it directly saved the lives of 187,000 people, prevented injuries to nearly 12 million people and returned $6 in economic productivity for each dollar that it costs.