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TIL the Thriller video almost didn’t make the cut. Michael wanted the “Thriller” video destroyed after he found out that the Jehovah’s Witnesses heard he was doing a video about a werewolf. He later agreed to go ahead with it after a disclaimer was added to the video.

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4Bdw TIL that deep inside an abandoned mine 230’ below Pennsylvania 600 federal workers process truckloads of retirement paperwork by hand moving files to and from over 28,000 file cabinets, desk to desk, from cavern to cavern. The process works as slowly now as it did in 1977.
VBA5B TIL The migratory monarch butterfly known for its spectacular annual journey across the Americas was officially declared Endangered in 2022.
kJ8v4 TIL that you can buy a room on a cruise ship and live on it. You pay a yearly fee and all amenities are provided like normal cruise ships.
woop8 TIL about Khuk Khi Kai, a jail in Thailand which was designed so that prisoners were subjected to a regular shower of chicken poop
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