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TIL Walt Disney originally planned EPCOT to be a functioning Utopian city of the future.

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wdpM TIL that the fifteen year old Steven Spielberg, dressed up ‘in a coat and tie’, sneaked onto the Universal Studios Lot and stuck his name up on the door of an abandoned office. He remained there without being caught for over three months, spending the time observing how the professionals made films.
grjZA TIL about José Salvador Alvarenga – A fisherman who survived 438 days (14 months) adrift at sea by eating raw fish, birds, and drinking rainwater.
MQV8 TIL an operation called Care For Sandy has volunteers using PhotoShop (etc.) to clean up photos (almost) destroyed by the storm.
JY4lV TIL when Secretariat (winner of the triple crown in 1973) died, his body was sent to the University of Kentucky for an autopsy. They found his heart weighed an astounding 22 pounds! The average weight of a mature Thoroughbred’s heart is a mere eight pounds.
yQr5J TIL coffin dancing is a thing