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TIL When it opened in 1967, Pirates of the Caribbean used real human skeletons as props.

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jRLn TIL before Mao took control of China, he ruled an unrecognized country in the southwest called the Chinese Soviet Republic.
8eMrK TIL Hitler was a huge supporter of Henry Ford for many reasons including Ford’s staunch anti semitism.
jNnyQ TIL that while most tinnitus is psychosomatic, there are rare types called objective tinnitus in which the ear canal is producing a noise that can be heard by a third party. This type is often curable.
d8N4j TIL about the 18th century folk song Maggie May. A prostitute in Liverpool who robs sailors after spending the night with them, Maggie is eventually caught and sent to the Botany Bay penal colony in Australia. It's possible the song's story is of a real woman, Nellie Ray, a prostitute and thief.
eQy5 TIL that Christopher Nolan “believes that audiences can sense when things are actually there instead of just being all computer generated”, which is why he constructed large-scale practical sets for spacecraft in “Interstellar”, including both the interior and parts of the exterior.