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TIL “Jim Wilson” is the American Airlines code for coffin or cadaver shipments

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a8OMJ TIL that the 2017 Japanese zombie comedy ‘One cut of the dead’, ( which was filmed as a one-shot feature), made box office history by earning over a thousand times its budget. It was made for the low budget of $25,000, and earned over $57 millions.
DwkD TIL North Korea operates a chain of restaurants throughout the world, and it’s a source of desperately needed foreign currency
Y785P TIL that the iconic Y.M.C.A. dance originated from a misunderstanding. The Village People's original dance choreography had them holding their hands above their heads to clap. Audience members misinterpreted this as a Y and added the other letters on their own in an episode of American Bandstand.
VMZa4 TIL: In 2004, a study was conducted to test the correlation between video game usage and surgical performance. It turned out that of the doctors sampled, the surgeons who played video games at least 3 hours a week performed surgeries 27% faster and with 37% less errors than their counterparts!
jZ5p TIL there is a hotel in Sweden with all the rooms up in trees.