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TIL: During the filming of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Kate Capshaw's custom-made beaded dress was hanging on a tree for a background shot. An elephant ate most of the back of it. Because of the dress' value, the production submitted an insurance claim, noting "dress eaten by elephant."

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kDa4 TIL of the Taxil Hoax, where a Frenchman spent 12 years as a Roman Catholic writing anti-Masonic accounts, only to reveal it was a prank on the Church. As he said “…I thought I would kill myself laughing at some of the things proposed, but everything went; there is no limit to human stupidity”
8aQ9b TIL due to a typo, the Japanese company Mizuho Securities tried to sell 610,000 shares for a yen each (less than a penny) instead of 1 share for 610,000 yen (around $5,000). Despite three separate attempts to cancel it, the Tokyo Stock Exchange processed it anyway, costing the company $225 million.
78JdX TIL about the Great Disappointment. It was the reaction that followed Baptist preacher William Miller's proclamation that Jesus Christ would return to the Earth by 1844, which he called the Second Advent. When Jesus did not appear by 22 October 1844, Miller and his followers were disappointed
grbL TIL that there is a theory called “The Phantom Time Hypothesis” in which it is stated that the years from 614 to 911 AD didn’t actually exist and where faked by Roman Emperor Otto III so he could reign in the year 1000 AD.
d8W6d TIL about the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany, which was sunk in the Gulf of Mexico. It's now known as the Great Carrier Reef.