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TIL High heels used to be an essential accessory for horseback riders and weren’t associated with being feminine

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0wQlM TIL Being forgetful makes you smarter. The primary function of memory is to improve decision making, so forgetting irrelevant details helps you to make more informed and relevant decisions.
DDYP TIL A doctor named Haing S. Ngor survived the Cambodian Genocide by concealing his education, profession, and the fact he wore glasses. With no acting experience, he went on to star in The Killing Fields and won an Oscar. He was murdered in 1996 for reasons that are still unclear.
aREM TIL in the Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch’s makeup was toxic and copper-based, so her face remained green for weeks after they finished shooting.
VBWP8 TIL about Operation Cottage. A joint US-Canada military operation in 1943 to take back an occupied Alaskan Island. Unfortunately, Canadians and Americans mistook each other for Japanese and open fired, killing 92 soldiers and wounding over 200 others.
ydMl TIL that M. Night Shyamalan was writing the fourth Indiana Jones movie. He left, claiming it was difficult to get Steven Spielberg and George Lucas to focus.