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TIL John Hughes chose to live in Chicago (where all his movies were set) rather than Hollywood or NYC because he preferred living among normal folks. "[In LA], you spend too much time with other people in the business and you trade ideas back and forth and it all sort of comes out looking the same."

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60xZ TIL Newborns recognize their native language. In an experiment on 4 day olds, researchers presented French babies with recordings of a bilingual speaker telling the same story once in French, and once in Russian. The babies,who had “overheard” French in the womb, showed a preference for French
d8BbB TIL: Cat-sized horses roamed prehistoric forests
9oMB TIL In 1946 the Winecoff Hotel, advertised as “absolutely fireproof”, was the site of the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history. 119 people died spurring significant changes in U.S. building codes. A 24-year-old grad student won the 1947 Pulitzer for a shot of one occupant’s leap from the fire.
NXro6 TIL that Big Bird was originally suggested as one of the candidates to go aboard the Challenger shuttle.
P1LvL TIL: The official song of POTUS, Hail to the Chief, was adapted from an original Gaelic melody