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TIL Jim Varney appeared in-character as Ernest P. Worrell entertaining the press corps at the White House

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R5Zx1 TIL in traditional Chinese culture, hanging was believed to let a person’s spirit haunt and torment survivors and was used as revenge by women and as defiance by powerless officials. They would often approached it ceremonially, including proper attire.
4QGR TIL The scene in Spiderman (2002) where Peter Parker catches Mary Jane’s tray in the school cafeteria does not have any CGI. The whole thing was actually done by Tobey Maguire himself. It took him 156 takes to get it perfectly.
NyQP TIL that after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, 1 member of Congress out of 470 against war. The dissenting vote? The first woman elected to Congress. “As a woman I can’t go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.” She was mobbed and had to hide in a phone booth until Congressional police came.
gMgo4 TIL, metal lunchboxes at schools were being used as weapons in the 1970s, and that metal was being phased out with something else while the last metal lunchbox made for school children was discontinued in 1985.
GYpyE TIL in 1929 the Empire State Building added a 222-foot “dirigible mooring mast”, where parked airships could offload passengers to the tip of the tallest building in the world.