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TIL “Edward Scissorhands” test screenings were so encouraging for 20th Century Fox, the president of the studio considered marketing the film on the scale of “E.T," but decided, “We have to let it find its place. We want to be careful not to hype the movie out of the universe.”

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4kBQX TIL that Chien-Shiung Wu, a Chinese-American physicist, made critical contributions to the Manhattan Project during World War 2. Her experiments disproving the law of conservation of parity in weak nuclear interactions, known as the "Wu experiment," earned her the nickname "the First Lady of Physics
GYbBj Today I learned that the circus company from The Greatest Showman shut down the same year the movie released.
PYKyO TIL Hawaiian King Kamehameha IV was shocked when in America, a train conductor mistook him for the servant: "The first time that I have ever received such treatment, not in England or France or anywhere else... In England an African can pay his fare and sit alongside Queen Victoria."
QxO9 TIL Due to effective use of protection, Prostitutes in Australia have a lower rate of STD/STI’s than teenage girls aged 14 to 19.
jW4p TIL that the Day of the Dead was not celebrated with a parade in Mexico city till Mexican tourism officials were inspired by the opening scene of the James Bond film, Spectre.