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TIL when shooting the cover for Pink Floyd's "Animals", the giant inflatable pig that was used for it broke loose from its moorings. It flew over Heathrow, and pilots spotted it flying 30,000 feet in the air, resulting in cancelled flights. It eventually landed at a farm in Kent, scaring some cows.

9wlpp TIL in 2001, Disneyland tried to re-theme their aging "Submarine Voyage" attraction around Atlantis: The Lost Empire, but the movie flopped. They tried again with Treasure Planet, but that was a flop too. They finally succeeded with Finding Nemo in 2005.
Wk5K9 TIL that Japanese Emperor Hirohito published several scientific papers on marine biology from his laboratory at the Imperial Palace. His contributions included descriptions of several species of hydrozoa new to science.
P1QWO TIL that a 6 year-old girl used Amazon Alexa to order a $160 dollhouse and 4 lb of cookies. When a San Diego TV station broadcast a news report on the incident, the words "Alexa ordered me a dollhouse" caused Alexa devices around the city to try to order dollhouses.
x6Mk TIL that Maruchan Ramen, the ramen company, produces so much ramen noodles in a year, that if they were laid end to end they would stretch from here to Mars and back
4koOa TIL there was a deadlier martime disaster than the Titanic: the Sultana. Carrying 6 times the passengers than it was alotted, the Sultana sank on the Mississippi river killing over 1,100 Union Soldiers. The tragedy did not receive much attention as it was days after the assassination of Lincoln.