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TIL that during the 70s-80s the crime was so high in New York City that they had volunteer crime-prevention patrollers like Guardian Angels
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TIL that the CGI Empire State Building from Peter Jackson’s “King Kong” took 18 months to create. The real building only took 14 months.
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TIL: The Righting Reflex is Why Cats Always Land on Their Feet; They Can Flip Over in Midair!
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TIL that Hugo Jaeger, one of Hitler’s personal photographers, took thousands of photographs, regularly in color film, during his time with the Fuhrer. He buried the photographs near Munich and didn’t show them to anyone until 1965, when he sold them to Life Magazine. In 2009 they were published.
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TIL; in the 1970s there were four "Airport" disaster movies. In real life, all the planes went back into passenger service. Eventually 3 of the planes crashed, including the Concorde which crashed outside of Paris in 2000, killing all 107 people on board.