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TIL the pockets in suits can actually be opened

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vPDDL TIL about the Pinto Memo - a 1973 letter from Ford which said it was more cost-effective to let people die in crashes and pay the lawsuits than recall and repair leaking Pinto gas tanks
WmYA TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.
GbZg TIL that astronaut Sunita Williams was the first person to run a marathon in space, finishing in 4 hours and 24 minutes on a treadmill aboard the International Space Station.
neNVo TIL in 1972, President Richard Nixon called Miami Dolphins head coach Don Shula before the Super Bowl and recommended he run a certain play. The week prior, he reportedly did the same thing with the Washington Redskins. Both teams ran the plays he suggested; both plays failed. Both teams lost.
X09D8 TIL Heath Ledger directed both of the Joker's hostage videos in The Dark Knight. Christopher Nolan wanted the homemade shorts to reflect the sadistic perspective of Ledger's own horrifying Joker, but it was Ledger's impressive work on the first video that convinced Nolan to let him direct the second