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TIL James Cameron Changed Titanic’s Original Ending After a Focus Group Called it “Cheesy Disney Bullshit”

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RPbw TIL that R. Norris Williams survived the Titanic sinking, but spent a such long time in the icy Atlantic ocean that doctors wanted to amputate his legs. He refused, recovered and went on to win his 1st US Tennis Championship that same year.
KOWk9 TIL that beloved movie A Christmas Story was co-written and directed by Bob Clark who is also credited with helping creating the slasher genre by producing and directing the influential 1973 horror film Black Christmas just 9 years prior.
XE6DR TIL of Rebecca Lee Crumpler, who in 1864 became the first African-American woman to become a physician in the United States. After the American Civil War ended in 1864 she moved from Boston to Virginia to provide medical care to freed slaves.
R7Aj6 TIL Researchers from three universities in Germany have created the coldest temperature ever recorded in a lab, 38 trillionths of a degree warmer than absolute zero
ADNYg TIL When the new United States capital was founded in 1791, the landmarks of the city were renamed in honor of Rome. Goose Creek became Tiber Creek, Jenkins Hill became Capitol Hill, and the Congress was the Capitol itself, recalling Rome’s Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus.