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TIL That between the 50’s and 80’s big companies produced “Industrial Musicals” that were only for employees to boost morale. The Bathrooms are Coming is considered to be one of the best.

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e0xMn TIL the recently opened ancient Egyptian sarcophagus of Mer-Neith-it-es dates back to around 600 BC. The Pyramids of Giza date back to around 2600 BC, so the pyramids in the time of Mer-Neith-it-es would be as old as Jesus is to us. Ancient Egyptians may have considered the pyramids as ancient.
6e4Z TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger calls RED SONJA his worst film, yet he claims that it’s an excellent disciplinary tool for his children: “I tell them, if they get on my bad side, they’ll be forced to watch Red Sonja ten times in a row. Consequently, none of my kids has ever given me much trouble.”
7rN0M TIL about The Bee Hummingbird, the smallest bird in the world
xV1E1 TIL NASA astronauts must learn Russian to be considered fully mission capable
E55w TIL after a hijacked Ethiopian Air jet crashed in the ocean, an estimated 60-80 people who survived the initial water-crash ignored the captains pleas to not inflate the life vests inside the plane. They all drowned when rushing water pinned their inflated vests against the fuselage’s ceiling.