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Z8jR4 TIL about William Castle, a producer /director know for his unusual promotional gimmicks, such as wiring theater seats to vibrate and shake during the climax of his movie and setting up a booth for people to get refunds during a movie’s “Fright Break” if they were too scared to see the ending
E1bm0 TIL that Mississippi had no official state flag from 1904 to 2001 due to a legislative oversight. In 1906, Mississippi repealed all general laws that were not reenacted by the new code. The flag statute was inadvertently omitted.
kO9Zd TIL the exercise motto "No pain, no gain" has its origin in religion: the pain was following God's will and the gain was spiritual