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TIL that Summer was considered a bad time to release a movie in the theater because of low sales until Steven Spielberg’s JAWS.

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690wQ TIL Hooters ran an airline called “Hooters Air” from 2003-2006. Stewardesses wore the traditional hooters uniform. The airline was distinguished for nonstop flights, guaranteed meals, and for providing far more leg room than was typical of the time. The airline lost Hooters an estimated $40 million.
Me197 TIL That learning to swim fully dressed and other water survival skills are part of a compulsory educational programme for kids in Netherlands due to a large number of canals and open water
DEEP TIL Napoleon said of torture: “It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile. The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know.”
QJ1LE TIL Cooking salty/marinated foods in aluminum foil can add a hazardous amount of aluminum content into the food.
JpZl TIL in North Korea women are not allowed to ride bikes, wedding ceremonies MUST be held before one of the 34,000 Kim-Il-Sung statues, and citizens must display in their homes a portrait of their leader.