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TIL That Research has Shown that Spoilers Increase your Enjoyment

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x7P0 TIL Contrary to popular belief, the Egyptian Pyramids were not made by slaves but by paid laborers
1OV7 TIL two 2,000-year-old “floating palaces” built by Caligula were recovered from an Italian lake when Benito Moussolini ordered the lake drained.
PYw1E TIL that in order to hand draw all of the bubbles in The Little Mermaid, the manpower was outsourced to a China based firm, and the finished artwork of the bubbles was kept in a vault blocks away from the demonstration at Tiananmen Square in 1989. This almost delayed the production of the movie.
lJbN TIL that the reason the 1918 Flu Epidemic is called The Spanish Flu is because Spain was one of the few countries where the government didn’t censor the actual death tolls. This made people think Spain had been hit especially hard.
NGl6 TIL that the world map that we are all familiar with is actually proportionally inaccurate and the real world looks much different. For example Africa is actually so large that it can fit the United States, China, India, Japan, UK, Eastern Europe and 6 other Western European countries combined.