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TIL in the movie Poltergeist, they used real skeletons. When asked why it was a simple answer, “they were cheaper than the plastic ones.”

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jN0bR TIL Robert Propst, inventor of modern day Cubicles in 1968, called them “monolithic insanity” before he died in 2000.
M1pV TIL that President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote three pages of detailed instructions for how his funeral should proceed, and locked them in the White House safe. They weren’t discovered until after he was buried.
Lk7Am TIL the HMAS Melbourne was initially sold for scrapping, however China bought the rights to scrap and instead fully documented and analyzed the designs for their own carrier program. Decommissioned in 1982, reports suggest it was not scrapped until 2002, having been used for training in those years.
Od0e TIL that unpaid internships are illegal if the intern “displaces regular employees” or the employer “derives immediate advantage from the intern”.
OpE6 TIL Cristiano Ronaldo funded the education of a 7 y.o. survivor of the horrific 2004 tsunami in Indonesia. 21 days after the disaster, the boy was found alone and wearing a Portuguese national football team jersey. He grew up to be a football player and was signed by Sporting Lisbon in 2015.